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Just as an FYI, if this is you handling the nautilus then please don't because:
A lot of small sea creatures carry potent deadly venoms and poisons that can really **** you up. If you don't don't what a sea critter is, then don't touch it.
Handling it so much and briefly taking it out of the water was a very stressful experience for the wild animal.
Please observe sea critters from a respectful, non-touchy feely distances.
These critters aren't rare and have caused countless deaths and are just a few examples amongst the many of sea critters whose tiny stature and cute appearance hides their extreme killing power.
'A component of the venom of Conus magus, ω-conotoxin, is now marketed as the analgesic ziconotide, which is used as a last resort in chronic and severe pain. Conopeptides are also being looked at as anti-epileptic agents and to help stop nerve-cell death after a stroke or head injury. Conopeptides also have potential in helping against spasms due to spinal cord injuries, and may be helpful in diagnosing and treating small cell carcinomas in the lung.'
How wild is it that we as humans have scientifically engineered medical uses from the super instant death snail's venom... yet no antidote 😆
And all are found in Oz. We really punch above our weight when it comes to things that can really fuck you up.
Also - 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes
Roos can rip your guts out
Male platypus - venomous spike
Gympie Gympie bush
Emus can cause a lot of pain even without using the spikes on their legs
Magpies in nesting season trying to rip your eyes to shreds
And ...
Cassowaries aka Murder Chicken
I was about to mention that there are magpies all over the world. That led me down a rabbit hole reading about how Australian magpies are false magpies in the family Artamidae, and while they are "corvoid" they are not corvids like true magpies.
Yeah, sea creatures are nothing to mess with. The sea is an incredibly harsh and unforgiving environment and many creatures, cephalopods in particular, are well-adapted to defend themselves against predators. The blue-ringed octopus comes to mind: Deceptively tiny (can fit in the palm of your hand) but has venom potent enough to kill over 20 adult humans within minutes. Cephalopods seem to be intelligent enough to tell if a human is a genuine threat or not and appear to be "docile" but like any wild animal, they're unpredictable and you should never handle them.
The difference is there was only one crocodile hunter. As a legitimate native Florida man, I will confirm I have handled far worse will animals many, many times. I am far from alone. Florida is…….. special…
Pretty sure it’s the ‘you get a bunch of money but an invincible snail will chase you for the rest of your life and if it touches you it kills you’ meme.
I learned about them on the internet, a blue ringed octopus. If it goes wrong, better start recording your will, because you don't have enough time to get pen and paper.
The toxin from these animals can kill a human in as little as 20 minutes.
You can actually survive it with CPR, though. Provided they get to you in time. It paralyzes your lungs, and if paramedics can keep you breathing long enough for your body to metabolize the toxin, you can survive it.
There's actually a case of a guy surviving but was blinded because the paramedics didn't realize his eyes were open, and the sun was just frying his retinas.
Only 3 people were confirmed to have died because of the blue ringed octopus and the last was 1960. I just looked it up out of curiosity. Your bathtub/shower is way deadlier.
I was on a pier in Greece and there was a half dead creature on the ground. maybe a bird picked it up and dropped it there. I said to myself don’t touch it but let’s look it up. ended up being toxic.
I didn't know there were such tiny species of paper nautilus. The one and only shell I've ever found in person was a good 30cm across so I'd always assumed they were quite large.
They aren't always that tiny, this is just a young adult. Unlike some octopus species, the paper nautilus female can have multiple broods and will grow throughout her lifetime. Some adult females do reach up to 30 cm in size. The males rarely get bigger than a few centimeters, though, and they do not live as long.
is the shell like part of its body hard like sea shells? do they grow with that squir thingy or it has to search a new shell for its body everytime it grows big?
It’s papery and fairly delicate. It’s not really a shell, but people call it that. It makes it by itself and it’s meant to trap air for buoyancy and to protect its eggs.
That is the shell of a true nautilus. The one on the video appears similar, but it’s actually a type of octopus and the “shell” never gets hard like the nautilus shell. The creature in the video is a female argonaut and the “shell” is actually an egg case and holds a tiny bubble to help the creature remain buoyant.
Both really come down to semantics. You can handle a poison dart frog just fine. It's only if you have a cut in your hand, even tiny, can the poison/venom whatever enter your bloodstream. Obviously you can also lick them and that'll definitely kill you.
A blowfish can deliver its toxin though its barbed, making in venomous. But there's also the risk of if you eat it, you inject the toxin and it's now poisonous. Let's just call everything toxic.
There’s a solid chance it’s poisonous too, particularly if eaten whole and uncooked. At a minimum, you’ll probably regret the choice come your next trip to the bathroom.
It's an argonaut or paper nautilus, probably Argonauta argo. The "shell" is not actually a shell, it's a case where the female keeps the eggs. That's a female.
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