Step aside, Spider-Man: The world's strongest stuff isn't your silk; it's sea snail teeth. The teeth of the common limpet species (Patella vulgata) are tougher than Kevlar and stronger than spider ...

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

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 ...

And so “the Blob,” as oceanographers have dubbed this huge body of warm water, was born. This satellite image from fall 2014 shows the beginnings of the Blob, where red colors represent unusually warm ...