1. Pick up the abalone. This may require prying the abalone from its hold, and using a stainless steel putty knife is recommended. But let's back up for a minute, because maybe you're wondering, What ...

This week’s object has more questions than answers. It was found on a shelf in the Stacks area of the building, and is not a formal part of our collection here at the Heritage Museum. We are unsure as ...

California has 44 state symbols, including a state folk dance, dinosaur and mushroom. But Assemblymember Diane Dixon says we need another — an official state seashell. And she says the shell of the ...

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MUKILTEO, Wash. – In a dark fish tank at a government-run lab, a striking sea snail slowly inches from its hiding spot. It’s a pinto abalone, and its numbers are dangerously low in Washington state ...

To bring abalone back from the edge of extinction, scientists need to find improved ways of coaxing the snails into reproducing. By Wudan Yan Kristin Aquilino, a scientist at the University of ...

There's a rare point on the Southern California coast that looks a lot like it has for hundreds of years. (SOUNDBITE OF WAVES CRASHING) SIMON: Point Conception, home to one of the oldest standing ...

As the boat nears the beach at Hawston Harbor, a group of South African plain-clothes cops wearing jeans and sneakers jump out of a double-cab pickup truck with shotguns and handguns drawn. But the ...

On a rare undeveloped point of the California coast, scientists are trying to repopulate shorelines with an endangered marine snail. This type of experimental conservation is becoming more necessary.