Photograph shared on social media shows a "giant horse conch" discovered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mexican National Fisheries Chart describes the fishery as “in deterioration.” Due to the conch´s decline throughout its Caribbean range, in 1992 the species was included in Appendix II of the ...

The shortage is echoed across the Caribbean with ... The queen conch has been under the protection of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) since 1992 which offers ...

It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer ... It was once home to a living organism, of course; most likely a species of cold-water Atlantic sea snail called Charonia lampas.