Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock After five years without a live sighting in the area, the critically endangered white abalone snail has ...

Hunched over a tank inside the Bodega Marine Laboratory, alongside bubbling vats of seaweed and greenhouses filled with algae, Kristin Aquilino coaxed a baby white abalone onto her hand. She held out ...

Once so plentiful that commercial fishermen harvested them by the thousands, white abalone have virtually disappeared from the wild. Now researchers are planning to reintroduce some of the imperiled ...

After five years without a live sighting in the area, the critically endangered white abalone snail has turned up off California's Channel Islands — an encouraging development for the marine ...