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  2. Chambered nautilus - Wikipedia

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    Because of their oceanic habitat, studies of their life cycle have primarily been based on captive animals and their eggs have never been seen in the wild. [7] Although nautilus have been kept at public aquariums since the 1950s, the chambered nautilus was first bred in captivity at the Waikiki Aquarium in 1995 (a couple of other nautilus species had been bred earlier) and captive breeding ...

  3. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    Persson's most popular creation is the survival sandbox game Minecraft, which was first publicly available on 17 May 2009 [37] and fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson left his job as a game developer to work on Minecraft full-time until completion. In early 2011, Mojang AB sold the one millionth copy of the game, several months later ...

  4. Nautilus - Wikipedia

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    Nautilus shells were popular items in the Renaissance and Baroque cabinet of curiosities and were often mounted by goldsmiths on a thin stem to make extravagant nautilus shell cups. The low fecundity , late maturity, long gestation period and long life-span of nautiluses suggest that these species are vulnerable to overexploitation and demand ...

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  6. Ancient shipbuilding techniques - Wikipedia

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    Ancient boat building methods can be categorized as one of hide, log, sewn, lashed-plank, clinker (and reverse-clinker), shell-first, and frame-first. While the frame-first technique dominates the modern ship construction industry, the ancients relied primarily on the other techniques to build their watercraft. In many cases, these techniques ...

  7. Shellcraft - Wikipedia

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    A sailor's valentine from circa 1870. Shellcraft, also known as shell craft, is the craft of making decorative objects, or of decorating surfaces, using seashells.The craft includes the design and creation of small items such as shell jewelry and figurines made from shells; middle-sized objects such as boxes and mirror frames covered in shells; sailor's valentines; [1] and larger constructions ...

  8. Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum - Wikipedia

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    This is because Sanibel Island is one of the best seashell collecting spots in the world (comparable to Jeffreys Bay in Africa and the Sulu Archipelago in the Pacific). [4] The museum also owns a collection of Pacific Ocean cowries and cones donated by actor Raymond Burr , who owned an island in the Fijis , and who led the efforts to raise ...

  9. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    He is rude, abrasive, insulting, stingy, and a borderline criminal. Hawthorne, unlike other hermit crabs, prefers a beer can rather than a seashell. Maya: Bee: The Adventures of Maya the Bee: Miz flea Flea: Pogo: The Mother Grub Mother Grub Homestuck: The Mother Grub is the parental figure of Kanaya, and lays the eggs of the troll species ...