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. “What is this ...

One person called it a "fancy nope rope." However unnerving as it may appear, the strange item is actually a lightning whelk egg case. For those unfamiliar, a lightning whelk happens to be the state ...

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida beachgoers are raising their eyebrows after an influx of strange and “mysterious spiral-shaped stuff” started washing up along the shorelines from Sanibel to Marco ...

However, officials said the weird skeleton-like thing is a lightning whelk egg case. PINS said the lightning whelk (Sinistrofulgur perversum) is a carnivorous sea snail that lives on the sandy floor ...

TORTOLA — Kaido Thomas recalled that as a boy growing up in Long Look he often would accompany his parents on reefs around the territory during low tides to pick whelks. As an adult he returned to the ...