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 ...

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 ...

An archaeological dig in a field near Mont Cochon, Jersey, has provided insight into life in the island more than 2,000 years ago. Dr Hervé Duval-Gatignol, Société Jersiaise’s archaeologist, led the ...

Step aside, spider silk: the strongest material in the world can be found inside the mouths of rock-dwelling marine gastropods. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comparison of the safety factors of tropical and temperate limpet shells in the eastern Pacific yielded two results of significance. A ...

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