UC Davis marine biologist Laura Rogers-Bennett is searching for the best way to preserve California's vanishing abalone populations. Two challenges confront her research team: tracking the ...

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) ...

Abalone divers are in for a shock this year, likely more uncomfortable than the first surge of cold ocean water inside a wet suit. In the wake of an unprecedented abalone die-off in 2011, new ...

Abalone divers are in for a shock this year, likely more uncomfortable than the first surge of cold ocean water inside a wetsuit. In the wake of an unprecedented abalone die-off in 2011, new ...

BODEGA BAY, Calif. (AP) — Marine biologists have determined that a type of toxin-producing phytoplankton not usually seen in Northern California is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of ...

Marine biologists have finally identified the toxic microorganism that turned the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts into a massive graveyard in 2011—but that doesn’t mean they know how to stop the critter ...

Marine biologists have determined that a type of toxin-producing phytoplankton not usually seen in Northern California is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of red abalone, mussels, sea ...

Thousands of red abalone washed up on the Sonoma coast after a phytoplankton bloom turned the waters red—and toxic. Photo: loarie. Red tides can kill marine life in two ways. The first way is by ...

The world's abalone are threatened, endangered or otherwise vulnerable in nearly every corner of the planet. If only we could wave a magic wand to know when abalone are ready to reproduce, without ...

Scientists have identified a microscopic sea creature with a Jekyll and Hyde personality as the culprit in the death of tens of thousands of abalone three years ago along the Sonoma and Mendocino ...

MANILA, Philippines – A team of scientists and researchers from the Western Philippines University (WPU) in Palawan province received a P4.3 million financial assistance from the United States Agency ...

First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins ...