These creatures are now only found on an Australian Island. Full grown they are the size of a small dog. They are stocky and muscular built, ranging from gray to black. They are active day and night, surprising fast runners and cabaple of climbing trees and swimming across rivers. They like the kangaroo are marsupials.
Sounds like a harmless little beast? Not hardly, they are known for their loud screech and fowl smell. They have large heads, shoulders and very sharpe teeth. They are carnivorous and quite vicious.
You might know of this creature from Looney Tunes. Yes, the “Tasmania Devil” does really exist. They are however on the endangered species list. Since around 1990 the population has drastically been reduced due to cancerous facial tumors. The Australian government has established a program to save the Trasmanian Devils.
The lettered olive shell gets it name because it appears to have script written on the shell. They are snail shells. To find them you need to dig under the shell beds up near the sand banks.
They look beautiful in jars displayed. The Indians used these shells for trading, jewelry and strings of them to decorate their clothes, horses and homes.
Almost as much as I love hunting a story to write about, I love meeting interesting people. I met a little lady digging in the sand at the beach and she introduced me to the ‘Baby’s Ear’ shell. They really do look like baby’s ears.
These pretty white shells were once the external skeletons or exoskeletons of a Gastropod or small sea snail. I have not found a crafty idea to use the shell yet. Have you?
When you find a pretty shell on the beach, do you ever wonder what creature once lived inside?
Maybe you have seen these pretty thin,shiny translucent shells. They range in iridescent colors from pale pink and to golden shades.
The shells are most commonly known as Jingle Shells, named for the sound they make when they cling together like bells. They are also called mermaid toenails.
A saltwater clam or ‘anomia’ once called these shells home. You are likely never to find anomia clams on you dinner plate, because of their bitter taste. The bitter taste may be because the shells are so thin and absorbent. The shape of the shell is determined by the object it lies on in the ocean.
Among some of the uses for these beautiful coin-like shells is jewelry and decorative items such as lampshades and wind chimes. What will you create with Jingle Shells?
This is a new hobby for me and I find it is a great way to get in a little exercise at the beach, as it requires both walking and bending. About Shark’s teeth: First when you find a shark’s tooth, it is really a fossil. The rule of thumb is that a fossil takes about 10,000 years to be created. So when you find a shark’s tooth it can be millions of years old. They are mostly black, but you will find grey and even tan. The color does not depend on the age as much as the type of sand they were buried in. If you find one that is an unusual color, it may be valuable. Are they hard to find? Not really, because sharks loose hundreds of teeth daily! You might think they would soon be toothless, but sharks have 4 rows of teeth and new ones come in quickly. Where can you find them? Along the shoreline tumbling in the surf, in shell beds, on the beach, and in sand beds. Once you train your eye to spot them, just be patient, you will find them.
There are lots of broken shells that will look like the real thing, it will take time and just a little bit of experience to rule out the fakes. The real shark tooth fossils will be smooth and you cannot break them. They are not always triangle. You will find points and broken ones. Today I found two of the biggest I have found.
These creatures are now only found on an Australian Island. Full grown they are the size of a small dog. They are stocky and muscular built, ranging from gray to black. They are active day and night, surprising fast runners and cabaple of climbing trees and swimming across rivers. They like the kangaroo are marsupials.
Sounds like a harmless little beast? Not hardly, they are known for their loud screech and fowl smell. They have large heads, shoulders and very sharpe teeth. They are carnivorous and quite vicious.
You might know of this creature from Looney Tunes. Yes, the “Tasmania Devil” does really exist. They are however on the endangered species list. Since around 1990 the population has drastically been reduced due to cancerous facial tumors. The Australian government has established a program to save the Trasmanian Devils.
look beautiful in jars displayed. The Indians used these shells for trading, jewelry and strings of them to decorate their clothes, horses and homes.
Almost as much as I love hunting a story to write about, I love meeting interesting people. I met a little lady digging in the sand at the beach and she introduced me to the ‘Baby’s Ear’ shell. They really do look like baby’s ears.
A saltwater clam or ‘anomia’ once called these shells home. You are likely never to find anomia clams on you dinner plate, because of their bitter taste. The bitter taste may be because the shells are so thin and absorbent. The shape of the shell is determined by the object it lies on in the ocean.
Today I found two of the biggest I have found.