TGIF: Nautilus

Peter Ward is the man. I became acquainted with his work through reading is papers on the rise (and fall) of mollusks through time. His research on mass extinctions is seminal. You also got to love his inordinate fondness of Nautilus!

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For a baseline to shift, there must be an element of amnesia. To be forgotten, you must first be acknowledged as existing. What of the unlucky mollusks then? Few people know much about these slimy, slow movers.
Sheril over at The Intersection seems to be confused about what the coolest invertebrate is. She goes so far as to call out PZ about his hyper-infatuation with Cephalopods.
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