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Repeating argonaut design on a Minoan ceramic. The argonaut was the inspiration for a number of classical and modern art and decorative forms including use on pottery and architectural elements. Some early examples are found in Bronze Age Minoan art from Crete. [21] A variation known as the double argonaut design was also found in Minoan ...
The argonaut was seen holding on to the aboral (exumbrellar) surface of the jellyfish using its lateral and ventral arms. The authors found that about half of the animal's aboral surface was damaged and large pieces of mesoglea were missing, presumably removed by the argonaut. Additionally, two holes, apparently bite marks, were found in the ...
The argonaut was observed using the jellyfish as cover, rotating the animal to hide itself from potential predators (in this case the photographer). The argonaut was also seen using the jellyfish as a 'hunting platform', as it "manoeuvered its host close to a smaller comb jelly, quickly grasped it with another pair of tentacles and devoured it ...
The Argonautidae are a family of pelagic cephalopods that inhabit tropical and temperate oceans of the world. The family encompasses the modern paper nautiluses of the genus Argonauta along with several extinct genera of shelled octopods.
Argonaut Mine; Jason for more details on the quest for the Golden Fleece; Toronto Argonauts, a Canadian Football League team; Argonaut Rowing Club, a rowing club based out of Toronto; University of West Florida; the mascot of the University; In the 1898 short novel The Story of Perseus and the Gorgon's Head the mythical story of the Argonauts ...
Jason returns with the Golden Fleece, shown on an Apulian red-figure calyx krater, c. 340 –330 BC. In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Ancient Greek: Χρυσόμαλλον δέρας, romanized: Khrysómallon déras, lit.
Argonaut (animal), molluscs of the genus Argonauta; Aprominta argonauta, a species of moth; Asterias argonauta, a species of starfish; Dentimargo argonauta, a species of sea snail; Dorcadion sulcipenne argonauta, a subspecies of the beetle species Dorcadion sulcipenne
Argonauta nodosus [previously known as Argonauta nodosa [3] [4] [5]], also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus. The female of the species, like all argonauts , creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell (hence the name paper nautilus ).