You’d probably walk past a chiton without even seeing it. These creatures often look like nothing more than another speck of seaweed on the crusty intertidal rocks. But it sees you. At least, if it’s ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of chiton, a small, armored marine mollusk, living along South Korea’s coasts. The finding shows that even one of Earth’s most ancient animal ...

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified off the coast of South Korea after routine genetic analysis revealed it was ...

Biologists have often wondered what would happen if they could rewind the tape of life’s history and let evolution play out all over again. Would lineages of organisms evolve in radically different ...

The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures.

Chitons – flat molluscs common in tide pools – have shells that fluoresce a rich red-pink colour when exposed to blue light. The vibrant colours may, surprisingly, help the chitons avoid detection by ...

Ling Li, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $1.05 million over three years to lead a team studying the visual abilities of a unique underwater creature ...

Diagrams (top) and electron microscope images (bottom) of chiton shells. From left to right: Aesthetes (green) are fount on all chitons, while shell eyes (blue) and eyespots (red) only evolved in a ...