chiton
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But the chiton’s unassuming body hides an array of tiny but formidable teeth.
From New York Times
In a series of lab experiments, Dr. Sigwart showed that rolling into balls has more to do with helping chitons get to places where they can reattach after losing their footing.
From New York Times
The modernizing helps: Fops and poseurs and senators and generals are more easily recognizable in pinstripe suits than Greek chitons.
From New York Times
Making a rigid material unexpectedly malleable, she evokes an ancient history of fluid sculptural drapery dating at least to the swirling, 2nd century B.C. chiton worn by the “Winged Victory of Samothrace.”
From Los Angeles Times
Believed to be a very early ancestor of a group of marine molluscs known as chitons, the discovery, scientists say, suggests that the common ancestor of all molluscs likely had a similar appearance.
From The Guardian
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