(1) The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone , and sea urchins.(2) Laurea reached out and her fingers brushed the smooth outline of the abalone shell on her father's chest.(3) Because of this microstructure, the abalone shell can absorb a great deal of energy without failing.(4) ‘An abalone can withstand assaults from a hungry sea otter pounding on its shell with a rock,’ he says.(5) Remove abalone from shells and use scissors to trim the dark apron around each piece.(6) However, the farms were started up only recently, and it takes about seven years for the abalone to reach a size where they may be harvested.(7) In abalone , a second major acrosomal protein also evolves extremely rapidly.(8) The cautious abalone have to be taught to eat it but soon catch on.(9) She set up a trading company, selling Australian lobsters, abalone and king crabs all over the world.(10) For an appetizer, try the shredded abalone with apple and jellyfish.(11) He found an abalone shell on the beach and uses that for his incense brazier.(12) It can be found feeding on crabs, shrimps, clams, scallops, abalone and small fish.(13) The abalone shell is twice as tough as our high-tech ceramics.(14) They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone , and crabs.(15) It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone and malachite inlays.(16) Local marine reserves offer tide pools full of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone , and sea anemones.