To prepare for sea level rise, scientists installed textured tiles on San Francisco’s seawall to see what material best ...

New England’s annual shell waste — currently headed to landfills — could tile nearly 300 homes every year, she said.

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida.

While shells of clams, oysters, mussels and abalone might be a common sight at the end of a seafood dinner, these leftovers are not necessarily destined for the trash can. Shellf Life, a ...

In the hands of skilled artisans, thinly sliced abalone shells are carefully inlaid into wood to create exquisite, nature-inspired designs. The iridescent hues of the shells shine through ...

A fireplace clad in a thousand abalone shells sits in a low-ceilinged red brick building in Santa Cruz.

A fireplace clad in a thousand abalone shells sits in a low-ceilinged red brick building in Santa Cruz. Above the mantle is an empty triangle, where an occult relief depicting the sun and moon ...

The shell of the black abalone — unique to the shorelines of California and Northern Mexico — could become one of 15 official state shells in the United States.

The shell of the black abalone — unique to the shorelines of California and Northern Mexico — could become one of 15 official state shells in the United States.

The benefits to the color of shell, feet and lip color of adding dried macroalgae to the diets of farmed greenlip abalone (Haliotis Laevigata) was evaluated in their latest study published in the ...