Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News have dedicated a week of coverage to shells and shelling in Southwest Florida. We are calling it "Shell Week." Our reporters and photographers are ...

An 8-year-old girl from Las Vegas found a rare junonia shell while on vacation in Fort Myers Beach. Ella Cline and her family did not realize the shell's significance until visiting the ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News wrapped up our first ever "Shell Week" on Sunday (March 3). It was a fun project and it underscored the love affair residents and people who visit here have with ...

A junonia shell is among the historic and cultural items to be included in the Sanibel time capsule, to be buried Saturday ...

JUNO BEACH — Samantha Deeter found one of the world's rarest shells on the Juno Beach seashore, and she didn't even know it. Deeter, a pharmacy operations manager from North Palm Beach, was seashell ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Susie McElheny has been on the search for a junonia shell for three years, and on Aug. 12, she made the rare find at St. Andrews State Park to add to the thousands of other shells ...

With the end of the year right around the corner, we've been "sifting" through some of our best shelling stories of 2025 and this one that we published in June is definitely in the running for the ...