orionisafish:

an-emotional-cactus:

So like please don’t buy nautilus shells they’re actually going extinct, largely because we kill them for their shells. They’re really cool little dudes but they’re not recognized as endangered because we “don’t know enough about them”, despite it being pretty clear to anyone who works with them, scientist or fisherman. Near nobody knows about this, so please be kind to these little guys and maybe spread the word?

Nautilus have been around for about 500 million years! The fact that they might be extinct in a couple decades because they’re being killed for their pretty shells is sad, but preventable!

this is an article from October, 2017 about the measures being taken to protect these guys.