They found the teeth contain a hard mineral known as goethite, which forms in the limpet as it grows. The research was published on Wednesday in the Royal Society's scientific journal, Interface.

Besides limpet teeth, Prof Gao’s research has also uncovered how the size of viruses makes them effective at infecting cells, which resulted in the development of nanoparticles of similar sizes ...

The teeth also bested several man-made materials, including Kevlar, a synthetic fiber used to make bulletproof vests and puncture-proof tires. The amount of weight it can withstand, Barber told ...

Researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have discovered a deep-sea limpet species 5,922 meters beneath the northwestern Pacific Ocean, marking the deepest ...

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 ...

Researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have discovered a deep-sea limpet species 6 km beneath the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the deepest known habitat for ...