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- noun Plural form of
nautilus .
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Examples
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In richly colored paintings Ms. Judge shows readers ages 5-12 some of what they found: nautiluses and octopuses, lizards and kiwis, "okapis from the Congo, capybaras from Colombia, and marabou storks."
When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses.
Ammonite Fossil Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010
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Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses.
Archive 2010-03-01 Michael James 2010
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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This new assessment derives from recent research that has shown that there are actually more extant species of nautiluses than were formerly realized.
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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The idea of nautiluses as living fossils now has to be rejected...
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Therefore, the common notion is that nautiluses are living fossils, perhaps near the end of their evolutionary journey.
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Therefore, the common notion is that nautiluses are living fossils, perhaps near the end of their evolutionary journey.
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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The idea of nautiluses as living fossils now has to be rejected...
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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