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 ...

There's no tongue on Earth rougher than a limpet's. Covered in hundreds of tiny teeth, it scrapes rock to shreds with every lick, so the limpet can feed on the microorganisms that live there. And it's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

They don’t ‘win any prizes for their gastronomic, economic or aesthetic value’. But limpets have acquired an undeserved reputation as ‘famine food’, according to research that aims to re-write their ...

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