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Yes :( They're harvested for there shells and are threatened by over fishing and habitat destruction. The nautilus takes 15 years to reach maturity and 70% of populations are male. When nautiluses do reproduce, the female only lays 15 eggs that have a very low chance at survival. If the nautilus goes extinct, we will lose the last member of the nautiloids, a group of animals that's hundreds of millions of years, and there will be nothing on earth quite like it. It would be like losing the platypus or the horseshoe crab.

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