Ancient Nautilus, Uncertain Future
The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?

A tentacled fuzzy nautilus swims in the deep waters off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Though the nautilus is well known in some ways, it’s also mysterious; researchers studying it hope to get a handle on how it’s responding to impacts of the Anthropocene. Photo by Peter Ward
Ancient Nautilus, Uncertain Future
Hakai Magazine
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