Tough teeth The teeth of limpets -- small marine molluscs famous for their tiny shells that resemble umbrellas ... The limpet sits on a rock and rolls out its radula over the rock's surface.

But not so long ago, spiders were pushed off their silky pedestal by the common limpet, a small marine snail dotting the shores of Western Europe. When limpets graze on algae, they scrape trails ...

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 ...

Snails live all over the world, even in the ocean and in freshwater streams, lakes and marshes. They’re known both for their ...

The world’s largest limpet, Scutellastra mexicana, is making its last stand on a group of islands off Mexico, with experts warning that it may slip into extinction without urgent conservation ...

A separate expedition found new species such as a limpet, a marine mollusk with a conical shell, and a sea star in polar ...

After successfully replicating the limpet tooth formation ... with full support from marine biologists and active involvement from our resident bioinformatician who quantified all of the gene ...

These marine equivalents of Komodo dragons developed ... Alleged mosasaur bite marks on Late Cretaceous ammonites are limpet (patellogastropod) home scars. Geology. 26 (10), 947-950 Kauffman ...

Limpet mines are named after the disk-shaped sea snail that clamps onto rocks. The mines are attached to ships with magnets and usually contain TNT (trinitrotoluene) explosives that are triggered ...

A separate expedition found new species such as a limpet, a marine mollusk with a conical shell, and a sea star in polar waters at a depth of 10,000 feet (3,053 meters) in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.