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

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

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 ...

The white abalone population has declined by 99% since the 1970s.

A snorkeler in Australia found a shell tagged with a strangely specific number, kickstarting an online mystery about its origins. Reading time 2 minutes When Elisha Tess Blott found a mysterious shell ...

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 ...

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Jason Tuley stands in the middle of a sun-drenched farm field on an early Saturday morning in Los Olivos, Calif., holding a fat, dappled squash in one hand and a long, red noodle bean in the other. He ...

In a dark fish tank at a government-run lab, a bright sea snail scuttles out from its hiding place. It’s a pinto abalone, and its numbers are dangerously low in Washington state after decades of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tag with the code 5247 was attached to a shell found at Mettams Pool in Perth. Source: _elishablott A four-digit code attached ...

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 ...