(CN) — Scientists have concluded that an ancient conch shell recovered from the renowned painted Marsoulas cave in the Pyrenees mountains is the earliest wind instrument of its kind on record and ...

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...

Music elites better table your ukuleles and unplug your theremins; science is bringing the noise with the newest in niche musical instruments. Or, more accurately, one of the oldest. A massive conch ...

Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in 1931 say that it was indeed used as a musical instrument millennia ago. The conch shell, unearthed in the Marsoulas Cave in Southwestern ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not just any conch shell. Its tip had been lopped off—unlikely by ...

KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.