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minus-squareweariedfae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-24 months agoTIL “Increasing predation pressure by pinnipeds through the late Cenozoic drove Nautilus into its present-day refuge in the deep tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean.” Neato! Also “Cenozoic” is rather… broad… so for anyone who is curious like me, nautilus…es? Nautili? Whichever, they slowly retreated to their current habitat starting around the Oligocene to the end of the Miocene (source).
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoThe true Old Ones have lived next to us all along.
TIL “Increasing predation pressure by pinnipeds through the late Cenozoic drove Nautilus into its present-day refuge in the deep tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean.”
Neato!
Also “Cenozoic” is rather… broad… so for anyone who is curious like me, nautilus…es? Nautili? Whichever, they slowly retreated to their current habitat starting around the Oligocene to the end of the Miocene (source).
The true Old Ones have lived next to us all along.