“I don’t know if it’s the most mysterious well-known animal or the most well-known mysterious animal,” says Gregory Barord, who joined the 2015 expedition led by Ward. Today, numerous companies, from wineries to exercise-machine manufacturers, also employ the name.
The underwater ship in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was called Nautilus, as was the first nuclear submarine. And yet, they have captivated humans for centuries, their shape inspiring art, architecture, and math across many cultures.
Only a handful of scientists study nautiluses, and many of the most basic questions about the creatures’ lives haven’t been resolved. Ward and his colleagues had come back to see if the fuzzy nautilus and the better-known chambered nautilus ( Nautilus pompilius) were still there, and to try out some new research tools.įrom left, Pomat Kanawi, Gregory Barord, Peter Ward, and Manuai Matawai snorkel off Ndrova Island, Papua New Guinea, in search of the little-understood and rarely seen nautiluses. Peter Ward, a paleobiologist at the University of Washington widely known as “Professor Nautilus,” had last visited in 1984, when he and a collaborator were among the first people to examine a live fuzzy nautilus, a species belonging to a new genus that they later named Allonautilus scrobiculatus.
Researchers from Australia and the United States came to study the creature, and Matawai, then working for the Nature Conservancy (TNC), helped organize their expedition to Ndrova. But like most in his coastal community, he had never seen one alive, because of its preference for the cold, dark depths. The nautilus-called kalopeu in the local Titan language-was also the symbol of a prophet Matawai followed. Manuai Matawai grew up watching his mother, like the other women in his fishing village, use the nautilus shell’s sealed outer chamber as a scoop for separating fragrant coconut oil from the fruit’s starch at the bottom of her cooking pot. She took it home with her, made it useful. Wherever it landed, the shell’s elegant cream whorl with rust-brown stripes would have caught the woman’s eye as she gleaned for shellfish. Currents washed it into the mangroves, or onto one of Manus’s palm-fringed beaches, or perhaps onto a nearby coral-ringed atoll, called Ndrova Island. Its shell lost the neutral buoyancy that allowed it to cruise effortlessly at whatever depth it chose, and it floated to the surface. When the nautilus died-at perhaps 20 or 30 years old-its soft, squid-like body rotted away. And as it grew, it added new chambers to its spiraling shell. Its 90 tentacles and superlative sense of smell aided its search for food along the seafloor. It lived slowly and in near-complete darkness-its large eyes tuned to the blue wavelengths of bioluminescent bacteria that signaled a carcass to scavenge, and just sensitive enough to tell night from day 300 meters below the surface. The nautilus inhabited the deep waters surrounding forest-clad Manus Island, an exclamation point at the northwestern end of Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Archipelago. Many of their other recent tattoos similarly hold spiritual meaning, such as the fallen angel with three doves representing the Holy Trinity.This article was originally published in bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and conservation powered by the California Academy of Sciences. Lovato has embraced otherworldly activities in the years since their 2018 overdose, from meditation and sound baths to conversing with aliens.
Other choice lyrics include, “I believe only in love / Everything else on earth lacks meaning / Even if this world is leveled to the ground / Even if the seas dry up and the mountains wear down / Love will live forever in the Infinite Universe.” In a video for Instagram on the set of their music video “Melon Cake,” which was filmed on Lovato’s 29th birthday earlier this month, they revealed that the song sums up their 28th year. Keeping with the celestial theme, Lovato also added a crescent moon on their middle finger. Woo for the tat, which says, “Love will live forever in the infinite universe.” The design includes a tiny planet and stars near the wrist and knuckles as well. Lovato thanked celebrity tattoo artist Dr. The “Dancing With the Devil” singer recently added to their extensive tattoo collection, inking lyrics to the song “Infinite Universe” by Beautiful Chorus on their hand. Demi Lovato is the latest star to rock the ‘naked dress’ trend
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