Whirling ocean currents whipped up by the wind can reach hydrothermal vents more than a mile deep and transport intrepid bottom dwellers to distant realms, oceanographers report in the April 29 ...

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 ...

Researchers have decoded for the first time the demographic history, genetic structure, and population connectivity of a deep-sea limpet widely distributed in vent and seep ecosystems in the Northwest ...

Researchers from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have decoded for the first time the demographic history, genetic structure, and ...

Humble limpets clinging to rocky shores around Aotearoa are surprisingly savvy when it comes to climate change adaptation, a new University of Canterbury study shows. Dr. Spencer Virgin, a ...

Oyster fishermen in Cornwall say their industry is under threat from another shellfish. The slipper limpet competes with oysters for space and food and is now breeding in the Fal estuary in huge ...

The giant keyhole limpet suctioned onto Matt Strang’s palm avoids sunlight and feeds on marine organisms, and one day its blue blood may be part of medicine used for lupus, cancer, even Alzheimer’s.