The long, white strand is actually an egg case belonging to a carnivorous sea snail, known as a lightning whelk. (Padre Island National Seashore/KSAT) Don’t be fooled -- though the image above may ...

The snail is carnivorous, eating worms, mussels and other shelled creatures, using its sense of smell to help it find and drill holes through the husks of its prey. The whelk’s robust shell is a ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East ...

Nick Lacasse experienced a slight hiccup while ordering whelks from his fish purveyor for this challenge. “They sent me five cases of elk,” he said. He ended up getting the whelks and returned the elk ...

Climate change could threaten the survival and development of common whelk - a type of sea snail - in the mid-Atlantic region, according to a study led by scientists at Rutgers University-New ...