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PalaeoPoems @palaeopoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I bet you’ve never heard this love story before: the Nautilus and the Ammonite. Read George Richardson’s PalaeoPoem to get all the shell-uous details! Ink-redible art @jadeinjoggins.bsky.social !

"Beadwork on moosehide. This is a large, medallion-style beadwork of a nautilus in the water. It has a pearly white shell with matte rusty brown stripes, a brown hood over the tentacles and eye. Its centre is a sparkly white eye. Its background is blue ""bead soup,"" beads in no particular order in all shades of blue circling the ammonite concentrically. It is finished in a gold and black tectured border.”

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PalaeoPoems @palaeopoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

These cephalopods, or soft-hearted invertebrates, coexisted from the Devonian Period until the K-Pg extinction when the Ammonite went extinct. I think we could all learn a lesson or two from their million-year-long union, outliving even the large marine reptiles of the Mesozoic.

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PalaeoPoems @palaeopoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Nautiluses are threatened today by commercial fishing and anthropogenic climate change…and may be reunited with their past loves: Ammonites. Read or listen to the poem here:

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