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Swimming Nautilus

Photo: Swimming nautilus
Nautiluses, like this one swimming in the waters off Palau, Micronesia, have changed little in their 270-million-year history. The first nautiluses appeared during the Permian period and were among only a handful of organisms to survive the widespread extinctions that wiped out nearly 95 percent of life on Earth about 250 million years ago.
Photograph by Stuart Westmoreland

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