Aquarium Snail Links

Snail Mail: 60 Year Delivery

Talk about snail mail! The nearly 60-year journey of a postcard through at least four states is finally winding down, although the little Georgia boy whose parents wrote him during a trip to Chicago is now 71 years old.

Shedd postcard received 55 years late leads to free visit

The Shedd Aquarium is accustomed to handling snails, apparently it's good with snail mail as well.

Get some real jellyfish in your house with the Desktop JellyFish aquarium

Add the relaxing flow of jellyfish to your decor with the Desktop JellyFish Aquarium.

Case girls learn about sea life, careers in science at New England Aquarium

A dozen girls from Joseph Case Junior High School recently visited the New England Aquarium, not just to learn about sea life, but science in general, as more and more women choose careers in science, math and the technologies.

Shedd Aquarium postcard arrives 53 years later

“We’ll probably be home before this gets there!” Those were the words teenager Scott McMurry’s mom scrawled across the top of a postcard from Chicago in the summer of 1958. She didn’t know how right she was. The postcard depicting the Shedd Aquarium finally arrived at McMurry’s Virginia home on Tuesday — 53 years after his mom mailed it. “I recognized my mother’s handwriting immediately,” said ...