Jewelers may prize abalone shells for their mother-of-pearl, but scientists have long been equally enchanted by the shell’s strength. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have used a ...

"It's just really exciting," one leader said of the groundbreaking plan to reunite ytt Tribe with its ancestral land.

Engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor. The ...

Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Monterey Peninsula in 1879, and his tour of China Point captured its exotic flavor: “You will come upon a space of open down, a hamlet, a haven among rocks, a world ...

BOSTON (CBS) - A materials chemist who is discovering the wonders of abalone shells wins Lemelson MIT prize. Dr. Angela Belcher says she's merging organic and inorganic materials in new ways. "If an ...

Black abalone once carpeted the rocky shores of California by the millions. The large, long-lived sea snails sustained ...

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The Wanted Alive! White Abalone campaign engages citizen scientists and recreational divers to record potential sightings of ...