Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Van Damme was a San Francisco businessman who ran a ferry business in the early 1900s. Using the profits from his ...

Hundreds of sea snails were released off San Diego County’s coast in an effort to save a dying species once prolific to Southern California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The world's abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. While captive breeding efforts are underway for some species, these giant sea snails are ...

The authorities popped him near the docks in Port Angeles. On a March afternoon in 1994, a sleek fishing boat -- not-so-subtly named the Abalone Made -- came ashore after puttering around Freshwater ...

Sara Boles of UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory gives an ultrasound to an abalone as part of efforts to help abalone more successfully spawn for aquaculture and conservation. (Jackson Gross/UC Davis) ...

Mungo was thought up as the face of the firm by Sinead O’Brien and her mother, Cindy, when they set out to put a new kind of farming on the map. At their farm in Rossaveal in Connemara, they grow ...

This article was originally published by Crosscut and is republished here with permission. When Kelley Scarzafava first started diving for pinto abalone in the San Juan Islands in the late 1980s, the ...

My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like. They had vanished from the Southern ...

The world’s abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. While captive breeding efforts are underway for some species, these giant sea snails are ...