It has a small private museum specialising in exotic shells.

On the other hand, some collectors buy the more widely available commercially-imported exotic shells, the majority of which have very little data, or none at all.

Scientists drilling deep beneath the city have discovered fossil evidence of exotic shells and coral.

As the exotic nautilus shell began to reach Europe, many used these for their hull, like the Burghley Nef of about 1528.

Through shop windows I gazed stupefied at computers and telephones as pure in form and color as nature's most exotic shells.

He glanced away from the coruscating cloud, looking down at the bracelet of exotic shells and stones and fabric that adorned his left wrist.

The pink hue comes from crushed coral fragments, and the high tide line is a cornucopia of exotic shells and corals.

Fossils, mummified hands, exotic shells.

The ocean was a luminous blue and the sand was littered with exotic shells.

Obsidian and exotic shells have also been found in Mayan tombs.