Move over spider silk. There is a new material that could just be the strongest known to mankind. Scientists announced this week that the teeth of limpets - small aquatic snail-like creatures with ...

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 ...

Pluck them and they’re dead. It’s as simple as that for most of the crusty gastropods that live in the intertidal areas of Southern California and Baja California, such as the prevalent owl limpet.

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. William Wright of Chapman University explains how limpets battle it out for the best section of the tide pool. William Wright is an associate professor of biology at ...

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 ...

New research shows that limpets can repair their damaged shells with biological material so that they are as strong as the originals. However, they are still vulnerable to multiple impacts and ...

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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 ...