Sliced top shell abalone on cabbage with lemon and hot sauce. At left is abalone as it appears immediately after being removed from the can. 1 (16-ounce) can top shell, also called abalone-like ...

Abalone is an umbrella term for a group of marine snails, only they don’t look like your typical snail because they have a flattened spiral shell. Their other common name is pāua, and they can ...

While they may look unexciting on the outside, abalone shells contain a thick inner layer of iridescent mother-of-pearl that has long driven humans to collect them and turn them into home decor ...

Only 35 to 40 percent of the total weight of an abalone is edible. The rest is mostly shell. But of that edible part, some 65 percent is protein. Other nutrients include selenium, magnesium and ...

"It was considered free food." Abalone shell mounds left behind in Big Sur and Monterey by the Ohlone tribes tell of a time when local abalone were ubiquitous. When Russian fur traders in the ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone.

You see, abalone are delicious. For plenty of animals, this is problematic. For a slow moving sea-snail with not much in the way of a personality and a shell that makes a really nice soap dish ...

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. A pair of abalone earrings made by Northern ...

Nacre samples were cut from large Abalone shells for three-point-bend testing in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard E-1820. Supplementary Figure S1 shows a ...

The milky iridescence of an abalone. The spiked turret of a queen ... Wright’s design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, shells have inspired artists and architects throughout history.