A remarkably hard yet flexible material, chitin strengthens insect mandibles to cut through rock and metal, and provides elasticity between the stiff body segments, enabling speed and agility.

Chitinous exoskeleton that has been expertly refined into a rigid material that can be used in place of more typical animal bones. In Nightingale, Chitinous Bone is considered a Component which ...

Aculiferan sclerites are chitinous structures enveloping a calcareous body 6. The chitinous bristles of chitons and juvenile octopods are probably homologous, and probably represent a synapomorphy ...

The invertebrates are too squishy to leave much behind, and only in truly exceptional circumstances do paleontologists get to see much more than the chitinous supports the cephalopods kept on the ...

insects and other chitinous critters. Researchers at the University of Washington say they've derived a nanoparticle from those exoskeletons that can help cancer drugs remain in the body longer ...