Did You Know? Australian Seashells: Amazing facts about these underwater wonders

Adorning beaches around Australia with their beautiful shapes and colours, SEASHELLS are a perennial favourite among visitors to the coast.   Did you know? …  The animals that produce Seashells have been living for more than than five hundred million years – that makes them about three hundred million years older than the earliest Dinosaurs.  More than five thousand different kinds of Seashells can be found around the coasts of Australia.   Deadly Cone Snails have some of the most have potent venom of any animal – much more so than that of a Brown Snake or Taipan.