PARIS — Limpets — those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps — have had the experts fooled all along. For more than a century, scientists have assumed that their out-sized ability to ...

Limpets -- those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps -- have had the experts fooled all along. For more than a century, scientists have assumed that their out-sized ability to clamp ...

For more than a century, scientists have assumed that their out-sized ability to clamp onto tide-pool rocks in defiance of bare-handed attempts to pry them off was due mostly to muscle power. Some ...