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Diver captures stunning photo of rare sea creature caught in haunting predicamen t: 'Seemingly oblivious to all the fuss'
A photograph of a stunning creature also captured a terrible predicament all too common in our polluted world. What's ...
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Argonauts: Are these the world’s weirdest octopuses?
Argonauts actually make their ‘shells’ all by themselves. It’s these thin, spiralling constructions that were the inspiration for their other name the paper nautilus. Their paper-thin ‘shells’ make ...
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To mate, this octopus gives life and limb
This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold its eggs is made of paper-thin calcium carbonate). The Chinese name for the species translates to “white ...
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Argonauts are commonly known as paper nautiluses because of the paper-thin egg case that females secrete, which looks like a nautilus shell. Male argonauts are 10 times smaller than females and have a ...