Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of biologists just discovered a new species of chiton, a marine mollusk that clings to rocks and feeds on algae. Acanthochitona feroxa is a ...

What chitons are Chitons are flat, oval-shaped marine mollusks belonging to the class Polyplacophora. They carry eight overlapping shell plates on their backs and cling to rocks in coastal waters ...

A chiton — a type of marine mollusk whose lineage stretches back roughly 500 million years — has been identified as a brand-new species after being misclassified for years, thanks to a routine DNA ...

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 ...

The modern chiton skeleton consists of one column of eight calcareous shell plates (valves) surrounded by a ring of scales or spicules. Articulated fossil chitons share this skeletal body plan.