quick snail piece to try andbreak myself out of this fuckass artblock. didn’t work lol im still struggling. original design by bethdehart/beefstatic (tumblr/TH)

#art #furryart #illustration #limpet #fatart #mastoart #fediart

Tiny #limpet reveals big secrets of the deep sea https://phys.org/news/2025-11-depths-discovery-tiny-limpet-reveals.html paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13235818.2025.2578245

"P. nautilus is part of a rare group of #limpets that make their homes on wood falls—tree trunks and branches that settle on the seafloor.... the presence of individuals of many different sizes indicates the #WoodFall supported multiple generations, suggesting that even tiny islands of habitat can sustain #DeepSea communities long enough for population turnover and dispersal"

I’m reading about blue-rayed limpets from Europe after seeing this terrific photo by Pfuetzi in my #Flickr feed. The internet has told me a lot about how they’re blue (“mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture”!) but not yet why they’re blue. Anyone know why they need these crazy blue stripes?

https://flic.kr/p/2rBRs1E

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7322

#marinebiology #biology #limpet #blue

Nice example of a sponge-bored limpet shell from Uisken beach. (Probalby Cliona celata)

The geologist Thomas John Jehu wrote an excellent paper on British Isles rock and shell-boring organisms in 1918. Alas, it doesn't seem to be available in any public online archives, despite being 107 years old. Here's the ref anyway: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541808554748

#Limpet #Boring #Mull #Conchology #Shell #sponge @Cormac_McGinley

A small community of Common Limpets (Patella vulgata) have selected this particular rock as their resting spot during lowtide. Once the tide returns they'll head off looking for food.
County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #Limpet #Ireland

More cool #proxy development enabling the use of #limpet #shells as #archives for #climate, #environmental and human behavioral change on #archaeology timescales

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225003086