The world's abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. If only we could wave a magic wand to know when abalone are ready to reproduce, without ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abalone is critically endangered due to overfishing and black market seafood sales. The random find occurred along the ...

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 ...

Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback ...

To help save the endangered black abalone, scientists are relocating some of the marine snails from the Channel Islands to the coast of mainland California. On a stretch of shore northwest of Santa ...

As species of abalone continue their perilous decline on the West Coast, scientists working to reproduce the mollusks in the laboratory have turned to an unusual piece of equipment to aid their ...

Biologists have discovered a new species of paua mollusk (also known as abalone) off New Zealand. The naming of a new species of pāua (abalone mollusk) further highlights the importance of ...

A new report exposes multilayered damages associated with the abalone poaching industry between South Africa and East Asia. The illegal trade is embedded in South Africa’s deeply unequal society. A ...

HOUT BAY, South Africa (Reuters) - In broad daylight, groups of poachers hidden among the rocks of a South African marine conservation area wade slowly into the icy, shark-infested waters of the ...