Nautilus pompilius
(from Nature 453, 826 (12 June 2008) — doi:10.1038/453826a; Published online 11 June 2008)
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These kind are so COOL! I love the shell
I wanna draw it. :D
Very nice pic, PZ. Composition is really good, and nautilii are so...peculiar.
The Chambered Nautilus! Always liked this shell guy and have a large photo in a folder!
C'est beau!
THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main, --
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft steps its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings --
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-valulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Wauw, a highres copy would make a nice desktop background.
Ugh, the blue only make me crave respite from all the brown I have to look at... I need to get out of parasitology, it's far too deep in shit.
very pretty indeed.
Well, I won't be seeing any of these beautiful creatures in the carribbean the next two weeks, but maybe I will see some reef squid, or an octopuss or two.
They should have more photos like this up in hospitals and similar settings. It's very soothing.
Higher resolution version requested, please. Something desktop-sized (1600X1200 would be nice.)
Also, I know next to nothing about nautilii (nautilusses, nautiloi?). Besides the pin-hole camera eyes, are there any other interesting factoids about this head-foot?
It looks like it's waiting for HAL to open the pod-bay door.
Vidar said:
Seconded - I need something soothing for my work desktop at the moment!
I think it's Nautili but if any linguist knows better, feel free to correct!
As for an interesting factoid - Nautili are "living fossil" cephalopods and fossil nautiloids essentially resembling living specimens are found dating as far back as the Ordivician Era (c.489 - 443 mya). Is that OK?
My favorite. Woof, woof!
That looks like a "Cephalopods for Obama" ad.
I drew a picture of a Nautilus pompilius back in '06 that looks just like the picture which you featured above. Though, I can now see that I may have allowed my artistic freedom to elongate the tentacles (a great deal). Ah well, thank you for posting such a beautiful image for us all to behold!
Wow a Cephalopod disguising as a tiger/zebra thingy.
... or are zebras and tigers disguising as cephalopods? ... We may never know.
For anybody looking for a desktop sized photograph of the nautilus, I have found this one which I quite like.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFile…
It isn't the same photograph but I would argue it is an equally attractive one.
Cool picture.
They are so beautiful, yet so odd and primitive. Thanks for the pic.
Incidentally, Nautilus Pompilius is the name of a pretty good Russian rock group. The videos I was able to find on Youtube don't seem to feature caphalopods, though.
Happy Quark said:
Thanks Happy Quark - it's just what I was looking for!