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, ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells in mollusks using blastomere isolation and culture techniques alongside ...

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 ...

Limpet shells could provide the inspiration for a new generation of optical biomaterials. Bright blue lines within the structure of the mollusk shells are created through the interaction of a pair of ...

BOSTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) --Scientists at MIT and Harvard were recently able to detail the photonic structures embedded in the blue-rayed limpet's shell that give the species its signature shiny streaks.

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 ...

Deep-sea limpets are conches with shells about 1 cm long. They have been confirmed to live in the long, narrow seabed known as the Okinawa Trough, located at an average of depth of 1000 meters and ...