Mother-of-pearl: Classic Beauty And Remarkable Strength Date: July 6, 2007 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: While the shiny material of pearls and abalone shells has long been ...

Specifically, abalone shell at the nanoscale is made of thousands of layers of calcium carbonate "tiles," about 10 micrometers across and 0.5 micrometer thick, or about one-one hundredth the ...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006 Jacquie van Santen ABC The shapes and colours of this abalone shell are governed by genes that are expressed in precise locations beneath its shell (Image: Daniel Jackson) ...

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 ...

Cape Town - On the Atlantic coastline beneath The Sentinel in Hout Bay, abalone shells lie knee-deep on some places – testament to the rampant poaching that shows no sign of stopping. Markus ...

For millennia, the 20 or so coastal California tribes have relied on abalone as an important source of protein, harvesting the shellfish at sustainable levels. Commercial fishing began in the late ...