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, ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comparison of the safety factors of tropical and temperate limpet shells in the eastern Pacific yielded two results of significance. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international team has developed newly refined techniques for obtaining past climate data from mollusc shells. Mollusc shells are abundant in archaeological sites spanning the last 160,000 years.

Shellfish played a significant role in the diet of prehistoric coastal populations, providing valuable nutrients. They are a common find in archaeological sites all over the world, usually in huge ...