Described as a new species in the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution, the limpet was found on hard volcanic rock 500 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, Japan. The gastropod measures up to 40.5 mm in ...

A United States Navy limpet attack on an enemy ship would be carried out underwater by a SEAL platoon. The limpets they use were designed in the early 1970s and have been updated only modestly in ...

The limpet sits on a rock and rolls out its radula over the rock's surface. "The teeth are under the radula to scrape over the rock surface," Barber says.