Chances are you have if you live near Monterey Bay, which in the 1920s provided some 75 percent of California’s abalone ...

Abalone with shells less than a quarter-inch long suffer a mortality rate of 60% to 99%. They are most likely to be preyed upon by filter feeders within the first 24 hours of being released, ...

These colors occur naturally in the medium in which Leah Mata, a Northern Chumash artist, works: the shells of the red abalone, or Haliotis rufescens.

Abalone shell cannot stop an AK47 bullet, but careful examination of the steps taken by abalone to make their shells may help Meyers and other materials scientists develop lightweight and ...

Eventually the baby abalone starts growing a shell and finds a surface to attach to. Within 10 months, when it reaches the size of a penny, it is relocated to a growing cage under the Monterey wharf.

If any shell wins the prize for UFO look-alike, it’s abalone. Shaped like a flattened flying saucer, it comes complete with a line of portholes rimming one edge, and spiral lines that swirl to ...