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During the 16th century, European traders sailed to the Maluku Islands, in what is today eastern Indonesia, seeking spices like nutmeg, cloves and pepper. The traders also found something else of interest: spiral-shaped nautilus shells, once inhabited by deep-sea mollusks fringed with an abundance of tentacles. The shells, patterned with white and brown stripes on […]
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The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?
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