Three abalone shells are embedded with other found materials on the underside of an archway. Unlike these abalone, most of the shells have their interiors hidden from view.

Abalone shells and the rich meat inside have sustained Mata's people throughout their existence. And the Chumash are just one of the coastal Native communities for whom abalone holds a central ...

Shell piles (middens) from California's Channel Islands reveal evidence of abalone gobbling from more than 10,000 years ago. But abalone were so numerous, and people so scare, that there wasn't ...

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. (May 19, 2022) – A team of archaeologists has solved the mystery of what lies under a layer of abalone shells on a proposed construction site at the Presidio of ...

The shell and the living White Abalone as seen foot side up in the lab at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach on Friday, November 8, 2019.

LONG BEACH – Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored s… ...

She keeps a cache of abalone shells on her MIT desk. "It builds exquisite materials. It's a very nice animal, " vegetarian Belcher notes, offering a shell to a guest.