This limpet has a home address.

A common limpet can leave its resting spot to graze, then return to the same shell-shaped patch of rock: its “home scar.”

That little cap on the shore may have a familiar place to come back to.

This limpet has a home address

Illustration of a common limpet beside a shallow shell-shaped home scar on a wet rock, with a dotted loop suggesting an excursion and return.

A limpet and its fitted resting place. The route is schematic.

Tall remastered historical shore-life plate, with two low conical limpet shells near its base.

This limpet has a home address

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