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 ...

Meyers believes that designs inspired by the structure of the abalone shell could help improve advanced ceramic materials in the future. Lightweight structures: shells and foams.

Abalone with shells less than a quarter-inch long suffer a mortality rate of 60% to 99%. They are most likely to be preyed upon by filter feeders within the first 24 hours of being released, ...

While the shiny material of pearls and abalone shells has long been prized for its iridescence and aesthetic value in jewelry and decorations, scientists admire mother-of-pearl for other physical ...

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 ...

Pinto abalone have always been pursued by people, both for their meat and the beautiful inside of their shell. The sport fishery for pinto abalone was closed in Washington by 1994, but poaching ...

A quarter-pound abalone (shell and meat) is about 3 inches across the widest part of the shell. He feeds the abalone wild kelp that he harvests and trucks up from Monterey Bay.

The waiting cops nabbed the captain and seized his contraband: 188 specimens of a rare Puget Sound mollusk, the pinto abalone, a strange, fist-sized snail stuffed in algae-encrusted shells.