A new report unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom that includes as many as one-quarter of Earth's marine species. By publishing the genomes of a ...

PARIS — Limpets — those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps — have had the experts fooled all along. For more than a century, scientists have assumed that their out-sized ability to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

The giant keyhole limpet suctioned onto Matt Strang’s palm avoids sunlight and feeds on marine organisms, and one day its blue blood may be part of medicine used for lupus, cancer, even Alzheimer’s.

Researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have discovered a deep-sea limpet species 5,922 metres beneath the northwestern Pacific Ocean, marking the deepest known ...

Limpets -- those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps -- have had the experts fooled all along. For more than a century, scientists have assumed that their out-sized ability to clamp ...

What’s stronger than spider silk? Limpet teeth! And what’s a limpet? They’re small aquatic snails with wide, conical shells. Their tiny, millimeter-long teeth are now the record holders for the ...

Nature's latest discovered supermaterial comes from a decidedly modest creature: A type of mollusk found on the rocky shores of western Europe. The teeth of these marine animals, called limpets, might ...