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chambered nautilus

NOUN
  1. cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

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  • While called "cuttlefish," these animals are actually not fish at all-they are members of the class Cephalopoda, which also includes octopus, squid, and the chambered nautilus. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • You can find them in phenomena ranging from the shell of the chambered nautilus to hurricanes and spiral galaxies.
  • Unlike most other cephalopods that have a short life span, the chambered nautilus can live 16 or more years.
  • The eggs and hatchlings of the chambered nautilus are the largest of all cephalopods.
  • But in the repeated curve of her thigh and calf he saw shapes like sea shells, with the luminescence and faint muscular rays of the great chambered nautilus.
  • The aborigines believe that the skeleton of each dead moon drops into the sea and becomes the shell of the chambered nautilus.
  • There is a short detour to consider the inclusion of similarity, where Weyl finds symmetry in the chambered nautilus shell.
  • Little changed over the past 500 million years, the chambered nautilus is considered a ‘living fossil’, like the horseshoe crab and the coelacanth.
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