A rare iron mineral has been discovered in the teeth of a living organism for the first time – one that bears the pet name “wandering meatloaf.” They’re more commonly known as chiton, a ...

Despite chitons' relation to squid, snails and scallops, ... "I don't think there's any other animal that builds its eyes into its armor like a chiton does," said co-author Daniel Speiser of the ...

The researchers estimated that in the genus Chiton, for example, the eyespots evolved within just 7 million years—a blink of an eye in evolutionary time. Read: This animal has a suit of armor ...

Shell plates grow from the center outward by accretion, and eyes are added throughout the chiton’s life as the edge grows. “The oldest eyes are those in the middle of the animal, and the most recently ...

Animals Our teeth evolved from fish 'body armor' over 460 million years, scientists discover. ... Chitons are known for their remarkably hard teeth, which are attached to their soft, ...

A research paper titled Biological Organisms as End Effectors explores the oddball approach of giving small animals jobs as grippers at the end of a robotic arm. Researchers show that pill bugs ...

They first 3D printed tiny seats for the animals to sit on at the end of the robot's manipulator arm, then set the woodlice and chitons to task, picking up tufts of cotton and submerged cork ...

Galipon says the animals weren’t harmed; after the experiment, the pill bugs were released back into the wild and the chitons continued to live in a water tank.

A pair of 430 million-year-old mollusk fossils have been named "Punk" and "Emo" by scientists. Researchers say the newly discovered artifacts show that early lifeforms were "more complex and ...