X-ray diffraction patterns show that the mature denticles of three extant chiton species are composed of the mineral lepidocrocite and an apatite mineral, probably francolite, in addition to magnetite ...

A chiton does not look like an animal that would challenge assumptions about vision. It resembles a small armoured shell clinging to rocks in the intertidal zone, often overlooked among seaweed, ...

A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...

A tiny, armored marine animal that has barely changed in hundreds of millions of years just reminded scientists how much they still don’t know about life on Earth. A new species of chiton, named ...

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The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the internet name a newly discovered deep‑sea ...

In the race to make advanced technologies cheaper, cleaner and more efficient, scientists are turning to an unlikely teacher: a small marine mollusk. Researchers at UC Irvine, working with partners in ...

The remarkably stiff and durable teeth of a common mollusk species could offer invaluable insights for future technological advances, scientists say. Reading time 2 minutes At first glance, chitons ...