A new report unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom that includes as many as one-quarter of Earth's marine species. By publishing the genomes of a ...

A limpet no bigger than a coin could reveal the possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic marine animals according to new research. Compared to their temperate and tropical cousins, cold-blooded polar ...

Buried deep within the depths of the Pacific Ocean lies an incredible discovery of a huge limpet that survives at an ...

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.

Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team that this week is publishing the leech's complete genome ...

Five hundred kilometers southeast of Tokyo, the seafloor sits under nearly six kilometers of water. No light reaches that ...

Under a new binational partnership to be announced Tuesday, a Baja California aquaculture firm and a Ventura County biotech company plan to make a protein vital to many experimental cancer drugs and ...

What’s stronger than spider silk? Limpet teeth! And what’s a limpet? They’re small aquatic snails with wide, conical shells. Their tiny, millimeter-long teeth are now the record holders for the ...

A limpet no bigger than a coin could reveal the possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic marine animals according to new research published this week in The Journal of Experimental Biology. Compared to ...