Chambered Nautilus Are Hatching At The Aquarium!

Do you know what a baby nautilus looks like? Do you want to see what a baby nautilus looks like? Squee! Chambered nautilus are hatching at the Aquarium!!
After incubating behind the scenes for over 14 months, the eggs laid by the adults in our Tentacles exhibition are starting to show signs of life! No one has raised a chambered nautilus to adulthood in human care. Our cephalopod aquarists are hard at work styduing the development of these beautiful bobbing babies!
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[@AnikaJarlsdottr]

these creatures truely are living fossils. I was fascinated with them as a child when my grandad handed me a book on deep sea creatures and the fascination has only grown.

[@theressesguy1161]

Adorable little critters, glad to see you guys hard at work for them.

[@thedogdogification]

Oh my, I had no idea they emerge fully-formed, and so tiny. How adorable! I'm looking forward to some updates!

[@SoLuVaBle299]

I might have just died from over-exposure to cuteness.

[@tropicalwaves4004]

Very interesting sea creature for sure!

[@AcanLord]

i`m glad someone is managing to rear these.

[@erica.5583]

Amazing!! They are too cute! Nautilus are extremely difficult to keep in captivity, let alone breeding them. Don’t get the wrong idea guys, they are for professional aquariums only to provide expert care. Congratulations, Monterey Bay Aquarium! 😎👍

[@austenmckenna5555]

They are so darling! Hope they are still bobbing around!!!

[@ieatedsoapnoididnt]

adorable small boi. 15/10

[@ThePhaeriephox]

Amazing! No larval stage. So cute and tiny!

[@Fermi_Consistency]

Incredible specimens. It would be my dream do take care of some of these ancient creatures one day.

[@nSpiraliArchitectb]

My favorite animal gettin' some love!

[@TurtleShroom3]

This is groundbreaking. Nautiluses are extremely hard to breed in captivity, so they have to be wild-caught. This successful breeding project will allow more people to see them without them being captured!

[@theexiledrussian622]

So surprising that they hatch as tiny adults! The rest of the cephalopods change a lot

[@DanDanDanDanDan]

Excited to see how this project turns out!

[@taylorcattalini1801]

Wow this is so exciting! I look forward to your findings and development on their care!

[@karaivie6484]

Wow! Can't wait to learn more about your discoveries of raising these guys!

[@68dart]

Awesome and Amazing

[@cgh1117]

Baby nautilus=Chibi Cthulhu

[@ThePhaeriephox]

LOL!!!

[@carlnauwelaerts4802]

Intriguing living fossils... As a child I first learned about the prehistoric seas in a book with drawings of Nautiluses and and the - alas extinct - trilobytes, among other sea creatures.

[@komodomonitor1585]

he looks naughty! get it!

[@Nautilus006]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Awwwwww

[@elizabethwhiteoak5291]

Wow .. and the best days are the days when babies are born!

[@aldebaran_]

Ugh! They are so fascinating!❤

[@Tenshii_Artii]

Look at the little one at 0:56 doing a little Sneeze! Too cute!

[@TwinkleStar2023]

Beautiful Nautilus.

[@trinitoyreviews8581]

How adorable!

[@Alex-fn2hl]

SO CUTE

[@andrep4805]

I want to see a documentary on these! I'll have to visit Monterrey!

[@chrischarters376]

Do you have a pressure chamber or pressurized tank? I understand Nautili live at 60 to 80 ft depth & often upon raising them the chambers in their shell blows out thereby killing them. Beautiful little creatures aren't they ❤

[@MontereyBayAquarium]

We do have a pressure vessel to raise some of these nautiluses! They can live several thousands of feet deep wild.

[@techgirl517]

This is awesome! We need protect this incredible creature, prolly the oldest living fossil on earth. I love them ❤️

[@crystalperry6370]

Congratulations on your fine work!

[@greatloverofmusic1]

SO AWESOME!!

[@Blue24Osprey]

Fascinating creatures.

[@jamiehughes5573]

Lil guy just floating

[@michaeldianem9259]

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Love, Diane

[@banuamerta4623]

This is a very goodnews

[@Paka1918]

Very cute. ^^

[@RussianBreed]

in other words they're the perfect species.

[@plebulus]

The back nautilus is the cutest thing in the universe. no exceptions.

[@ghosttownguy7472]

Why are these guys sooo cute?

[@jjhyde5179]

i was hoping that someone would study these fascinating creatures more…and i’m so glad you are attempting to raise them! i realize that this was posted like 5 years ago, however, is there anyway to post an update? Love your aquarium and mbari

[@solemnwaltz]

A whole year? That's crazy They're so weird and cute

[@jezebel324]

I can’t believe my eyes, what an accomplishment for science

[@suryadidjasman319]

Good job..... tahnk you

[@Squirrely456]

I realize I may not get a response due to this being an older video. If you see this, did any of these little babies make it? I sincerely hope so!

[@MontereyBayAquarium]

Thanks for the message and follow up! Unfortunately, the nautilus hatchlings we had didn't make it to adulthood. Nautilus husbandry is very tricky, and there's a lot of work being done around the world to figure out how to raise them from egg to fully-grown nautilus. If we have any breakthroughs, we will certainly let you know!

[@Squirrely456]

@@MontereyBayAquarium I'm sorry to hear that. Keep trying and thanks for your hard work. I sincerely hope I visit you again sometime soon. The chances are low as I live in New York, but hopefully I'll get a chance to visit family in CA. If so, it might work out.

[@JustinSable]

@@MontereyBayAquarium Ah that's unfortunate. I was popping in here to see if the shell-blackening had occurred on them like other nautiluses that are taken from nature. I'd imagine it's tricky work raising aquatic creatures, let alone ones we can't even study well in their natural environment. Hopefully you'll have better luck in the future, their development cycle makes it concerning about how easily they could become extinct in the wild; would be a shame to lose a creature that has been essentially unchanged since the Cambrian.

[@TurtleShroom3]

​@@MontereyBayAquarium Practice makes perfect. Breeding them alone is difficult, but you are walking towards raising them fully in captivity, sparing the wild populations in the process.

[@nothingfollows3009]

They are so cute. :3

[@abyssalzei552]

Cute doggo

[@pastapockets984]

"Time to shellebrate your hatchday" Dude cmon, don't kill em.

[@CaptBroery]

i tought these were dinosaurs like the futalonkosaurus.

[@LoreGunjurer]

THE BABY...

[@otcho8307]

They look like they're wearing little hats

[@SIRO_GLYDER]

I thought these went extinct, are these fossilised eggs or are they new?

[@ewilson9650]

ammonites are extinct. nautilus' aren't

[@probegreen7439]

Then 2 years later That little cute cute Nautilus is still alive?

[@marcuscarana9240]

Modern ammonites.

[@AceOfSpadesX]

How many survived?

[@ekosubandie2094]

Cthulhu's hatchlings

[@aspopulvera9130]

baby they are but they are still the grand daddy of kraken

[@Jon87224]

I wonder the reason they can't survive long under human care is due to the fact that we can't simulate the ocean pressures at the deepest points. It might do something to their organs not being pressurized enough? These animals live in the abyss naturally.

[@Nemesis0513]

They look adorable. Also, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT PUN?!! I mean, it works, but you don’t just do that on the official documents!

[@ScrubLordKyle]

that pun tho shellebrate

[@zachpulido5972]

If they successfully kept breeding them they might be available for the pet trade in 10 years

[@apdroidgeek1737]

It would still be pretty rare considering how little saltwater hobbyists are with how advanced coral keeping is now compared to other hobby. To some people they may not be worth it, i mean they do look cool but is it any different from looking at it behind the screen? But i do wish they breed them and become popular enough for their care to be very easy like how corals used to be impossible to keep lol.

[@roland_the_cursor]

Update?

[@NoName-ze4qn]

One year just to hatch? No wonder they're endangered...

[@vanniyo8988]

One day I'll be able to buy one for my fish tank 😀

[@memeboi6017]

nope

[@theresaprice310]

No they’re almost extinct 👿

[@Cmcmillen77]

So y’all are growing them essentially lol

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Any update?

[@apdroidgeek1737]

I really want to be proven wrong that they are impossible to keep alive in captivity as theyre literally my favorite animal and i wanted to keep one myself.

[@MisterEcks]

@@apdroidgeek1737 They didn't make it. Not a single baby nautilus has made it from hatching to adulthood, but that will change given time.

[@211teitake]

So does that mean you've been consistently killing them?

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

Its shell looks pretty good and there are many antique items back then that use its shell for decoration

[@default2591]

their design is very outdated lmao