Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A female argonaut is also described in Marianne Moore's poem "The Paper Nautilus". "Argonauta" is the name of a chapter in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea. Paper nautiluses were caught in the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. [24] Argonauts gave their name to an Arabidopsis thaliana mutation and by extension to Argonaute proteins.
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
Charles Rafferty is an American poet.In 2009 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [1] His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares, among other magazines, websites, and anthologies. [2]
Argonauta hians, also known as the winged argonaut, muddy argonaut or brown paper nautilus, is a species of pelagic octopus. The common name comes from the grey to brown coloured shell. The common name comes from the grey to brown coloured shell.
Argonauta nodosus [previously known as Argonauta nodosa [3] [4] [5]], also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus.The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell (hence the name paper nautilus).
Nautilus is the only genus of cephalopod that has a well-developed external shell. Females of the cephalopod genus Argonauta create a papery egg case which sometimes washes up on tropical beaches and is referred to as a "paper nautilus".
A marine biologist documented her rescue of a rare paper nautilus, “one of the ocean’s weirdest animals,” as she helped the cephalopod find its way back into deeper waters.Australian marine ...
The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell (hence the name paper nautilus). The shell is usually approximately 80 mm in length, although it can exceed 90 mm in exceptional specimens; the world record size is 95.5 mm. [2]