The humble limpet has been receiving a lot of press lately, as scientists recently determined that the material from which its teeth are made is officially the world's strongest natural material. Now, ...

Many species rely on diverse selections of entirely organic photonic structures for the manipulation of light and the display of striking colours. Here we report the discovery of a mineralized ...

Limpets are among the most abundant and familiar features of the world’s coastlines. They are perhaps most famous simply for their ability to cling onto rocks, but have never earned the level of ...

The blue-rayed limpet is a tiny mollusk that lives in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. These diminutive organisms -- as small as a ...

The humble limpet generally doesn’t attract much attention. Most of us remember them from childhood as tenacious little creatures clinging to rocks, impossible to prise off. But this familiar, ...

New research from bioengineers paints a surprisingly complex picture of limpets - the little seashore creatures that are ubiquitous on rocky patches of beaches in many parts of the world. The ...

Humble limpets clinging to rocky shores around Aotearoa are surprisingly savvy when it comes to climate change adaptation, a new University of Canterbury study shows. Dr. Spencer Virgin, a ...

The "Wanted" posters are staying up for a US shellfish which became a pest in a marine biodiversity hotspot. Slipper limpets were mistakenly brought on baby mussels to the Menai Strait between ...

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