On June 6, 2018, the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) — led by famed oceanographer and explorer Dr. Robert Ballard — will embark on a six-month expedition aboard Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus in one of its longest exploration seasons to date. In its fourth year of exploring the eastern Pacific [...]
The Chambered Nautilus is one of the ocean’s most iconic living fossils, belonging to a lineage which has remained virtually unchanged since the Cretaceous. Still, no animal can truly remain the same over such a vast expanse of time; the process of speciation must always advance, even if [...]
Newly appointed Professor Peter Ward, of the University Adelaide’s Sprigg Geobiology Centre is calling for a global ban on trade of the Nautilus sea shell. His efforts are stemming from a recent trip the Phillipeans where he found that the Nautilus is close to extinction as a result of [...]