Taking a trick from birds and butterflies, a mollusk shines blue using intricate structures that allow selective reflection of light. But unlike other animals, the blue-rayed limpet, a snail that ...

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 ...

I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

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 ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --Limpets can make their damaged shells good as new using biological materials derived from within. When David Taylor, a professor of materials engineering at Trinity College Dublin, ...

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 ...

We are coming into that perfect window of summer when the greenhead season is over and those of us who live near salt marshes can go outside again, the days are warm and breezy, the beach beckons.

We are coming into that perfect window of summer when the greenhead season is over and those of us who live near salt marshes can go outside again, the days are warm and breezy, the beach beckons.