Each egg case is about the side of a nickle. A dozen of so baby whelks – they look just like tiny adults – are inside each egg case. Wong said the female whelk puts a lot of energy into ...

It would be hard to stuff one of these long egg cases back into an empty whelk shell much less one with the snail still inside. Each capsule can hold dozens of babies and each string, maybe thousands.

When we hear the word whelk, large, graceful spirals quickly come to mind. But there's another group of whelks, smaller but no less lovely, bearing the whelk name. You can call them basket or dog ...

The shell of the knobbed whelk, shown here, was designated as Georgia's official state seashell by the 1987 General Assembly. The shell is commonly found on Georgia's barrier island beaches.

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The knobbed whelk is the state shell of New Jersey, but is not usually washed up on its beaches. “This is a huge fishery, so people get excited when they find these on the beach, said Lawless. “You ...

If you find an egg case on the beach, officials said you can leave it on the beach. A gull or crab may eat it once it dries out. The lightning whelk was made the official state shell of Texas in 1987.

This lightning whelk egg case was found on a Texas beach. Padre Island National Seashore/Facebook Screengrab A “cryptic object” was found washed up on a Texas beach, officials said.