Wampum, a type of shell bead, were used as currency by Native Americans while whale teeth were exchanged for goods by people in Fiji. The cowrie, however, proved especially popular and endured for ...

In spring last year, Ando learned through a campaign to promote a dish called "uni-don" (sea urchin bowl) that, while their flavorful roes are used in meals, the shells are mostly being discarded.

MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. Sub-caliber armor-piercing shells with depleted uranium, which the UK promised to ship to Ukraine, have until now been only used by NATO states, and only on foreign ...