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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...