Nautilus — Living Dinosaur

People often call the Nautilus a living dinosaur but they're wrong. The Nautilus is 500 million years old. Dinosaurs didn't roam this earth until 230 million years ago.

The Nautilus lives thousands of feet deep in the ocean waters of Andaman, Fiji and the Great Barrier Reef. In scientific studies, the Nautilus has proven to have both short-term and long-term memory when exposed to Pavlov-style tests using lights and food. 

This Nautilus lives at the Riverbanks Zoo. When my Wild Kratt's-loving son saw it, he nearly lost his mind he was so excited! He announced to everybody within 100 feet that it was older than dinosaurs. 

This photograph was captured with a Sony a6300.