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Related: About this forumRare, Hairy Nautilus spotted for the first time in 30 years
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-hairy-nautilus-spotted-first-time-30-yearsDistant relatives of squid and cuttlefish, nautiluses are an ancient lineage often nicknamed living fossils because their shells have appeared in the archaeological record for over 500 million years. Theyve survived two of the planets largest mass extinctions. This summer, researchers have spotted a rare nautilus called Allonautilus scrobiculatus for the first time in three decades. Until now, only two people have ever laid eyes on it.
Allonautilus was first discovered in 1984 off of Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea by Bruce Saunders of Bryn Mawr College. He and the University of Washingtons Peter Ward collected several specimens and found they were from a new species based on their gills, jaws, shell shape, and male reproductive structures. The animal was spotted once more in the wild in 1986, and then not seen again until July of this year when Ward returned to the South Pacific to survey nautilus populations.
Because nautiluses are scavengers, his team set up bait-on-a-stick systems every evening fish and chicken meat were suspended on a pole between 150 and 400 meters (500 and 1,300 feet) below the surface, then the surroundings were filmed for 12 hours. There were about 30 guys involved and each day we would all watch the movies from the night before at 8X speed. There were a lot of ohs and ahs, Ward said in a statement.
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Rare, Hairy Nautilus spotted for the first time in 30 years (Original Post)
WillParkinson
Aug 2015
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)1. My eyes are getting worse and worse.
I swear I thought that said "rare hairy nuts"
Mbrow
(1,090 posts)3. It does sound like
The beginning of a joke "a hairy nautilus walks into a bar"
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. Odd looking things, aren't they!
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)4. I've seen worse
MADem
(135,425 posts)5. Thread win! nt