Researchers at Australian universities report that oxygen and carbon isotope ratios locked inside abalone shells can help classify and verify the animals’ geographic origin, achieving better than 80% ...

Black abalone once carpeted the rocky shores of California by the millions. The large, long-lived sea snails sustained Indigenous peoples along the coast for thousands of years, anchored a thriving ...

Apparently, engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego do. They are using the shell of the red abalone, a seaweed eating snail, as a guide for developing bullet-stopping armor.