Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
The nautilus has survived for ½ billion years, even through the End-Permian Mass Extinction. It won’t survive us.
These are the shells of survivors that have evolved over those half billion years, but the design for survival was remarkably resilient until we came along. The main problem today is their shells which we covet for our living rooms. This fossil from before the Permian-Triassic Boundary gives some idea of the durability of the type. 
These are the shells of survivors that have evolved over those half billion years, but the design for survival was remarkably resilient until we came along. The main problem today is their shells which we covet for our living rooms. This fossil from before the Permian-Triassic Boundary gives some idea of the durability of the type.
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