Chef Jacob Harth is slowly, quietly, sneaking up on some sea snails, or limpets, attached to a rock. “[You have to] clip them off the rock before they know that you’re there, otherwise they’ll clamp ...

Tagged limpets avoiding the sun on a south-facing boulder (Photo/Supplied) Dr Spencer Virgin, a post-doctoral fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, has worked on a thesis ...

SOME observations made by the present writer at the Scottish Marine Station during July 1884, were published in NATURE for January 1,1885. These observations confirmed the statements previously made ...

Under a new binational partnership to be announced Tuesday, a Baja California aquaculture firm and a Ventura County biotech company plan to make a protein vital to many experimental cancer drugs and ...

Spider's silk has long been the strongest natural material known to man, prompting researchers to attempt to uncover its secrets so they can replicate its remarkable properties in man-made materials.

A limpet no bigger than a coin could reveal the possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic marine animals according to new research. Compared to their temperate and tropical cousins, cold-blooded polar ...

For years, spiders' silk was thought to be the strongest biological substance on Earth, but now there is a new contender for that crown: the teeth of limpets. Engineers in the UK have discovered that ...

A limpet no bigger than a coin could reveal the possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic marine animals according to new research published this week in The Journal of Experimental Biology. Compared to ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --Limpets can make their damaged shells good as new using biological materials derived from within. When David Taylor, a professor of materials engineering at Trinity College Dublin, ...

Deep-sea limpets are conches with shells about 1 cm long. They have been confirmed to live in the long, narrow seabed known as the Okinawa Trough, located at an average of depth of 1000 meters and ...