chiton

Despite chitons' relation to squid, snails and scallops, their eyes aren't located on their soft bodies.

On the throne now sat Notus—a bronze-skinned old man in a fiery Greek chiton, his head crowned with a wreath of withered, smoking barley.

But the chiton’s unassuming body hides an array of tiny but formidable teeth.

“We tried everything. Drink, drugs, prayer, even small doses of poison. On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.”

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.