The post How the Female Paper Nautilus Builds Her Own Boat appeared first on A-Z Animals. For thousands of years, sailors and naturalists believed the paper nautilus (Argonauta) skimmed the ocean like ...

Octopuses in the genus Argonauta have shells on their body It is only the females that carry a shell The shell also plays the role of an egg case A tiny octopus with a shell of its own has puzzled ...

The argonauts are a group of octopuses unlike any other. The females secrete a thin, white, brittle shell called the paper nautilus. Nestled with their arms tucked inside this beautiful, translucent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fishing trip out of Newport Beach, Ca., last week produced an extraordinary catch of a type of octopus that constructs its own ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution indicates that a type of octopus appears to have evolved independently to develop something resembling a shell, despite having lost the genetic code that ...

Nautilus studies-- the first twenty-two centuries / Richard Arnold Davis -- The ancestry of the genus Nautilus / Curt Teichert and Tatsuro Matsumoto -- The species of Nautilus / W. Bruce Sanders -- ...

For thousands of years, sailors and naturalists believed the paper nautilus (Argonauta) skimmed the ocean like a miniature sailboat — raising its webbed arms like sails and using its limbs as oars.