The chambered, or pearly, nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is a charismatic cephalopod species known for its exceptional spiraling, chambered shell. It belongs to a family that has barely changed since ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club will meet on April 13 at 2 p.m. at the Sanibel Recreation Center, at 3880 Sanibel-Captiva Road ...

HABITAT: The chambered nautilus lives in deep fore reefs (at about 330 feet ... THREATS: Strong overharvesting to fuel the international shell trade, habitat degradation, and the inadequacy of ...

It’s these thin, spiralling constructions that were the inspiration for their other name the paper nautilus. Their paper-thin ‘shells’ make them look a lot like the cephalopod the chambered nautilus, ...

All of them had a chambered shell that they used for buoyancy ... that ammonites would have had eight arms rather than lots of tentacles like a nautilus, though the shell is more similar to that of a ...