The earrings are only a couple of inches long, but the masterfully carved salmon look like they’ve leaped from the water to whisper in the wearer’s ear. Their glowing red hues and iridescent ...

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - White abalone - whose flesh is a delicacy and polished shell is prized as mother of pearl - are threatened with extinction. But scientists are looking to turn the tide for ...

All 7.3 million of them — not cattle, but the stunning green and bright blue shelled abalone that Asian consumers are scrambling to buy. Australian abalone bred and raised in shallow seawater-flushed ...

The little shells, a beautiful turquoise-aqua colour, cling to the artificial rocks, barely visible in the gloom. However, within a couple of years, they and thousands more growing next to them, may ...

Tiny as a fingernail, these babies don’t look like much. But there is a lot of hope riding on their progress. These pinto abalone are being raised by the tens of thousands in dozens of 30-gallon tanks ...

Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sought ...