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 ...

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.

Eye on Nature: Whelk egg case, frogspawn, ladybirds and funnel web. Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna. The empty egg case of the common whelk. Éanna Ní Lamhna. Sat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00.

Those “snake skeletons” recently found curled up on Outer Banks beaches have been identified by the National Park Service as whelk egg casings. Whelks are large sea snails.

The lightning whelk's egg case looks like snakeskin on the Texas Gulf Coast. Here's why it looks like that and more on the state shell of Texas. Sea snails wash up on Gulf Coast beach ...

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.