Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2024, Japanese researchers discovered a new species of chiton in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off the coast of Japan The chiton was ...

A strange creature from the deep ocean, Ferreiraella populi, was named by internet users and is now a scientifically ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...