In Literature and Etymology
- Argonauts are featured in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, noted for their ability to use their tentacles as sails. There is no evidence for this.
- A female argonaut is also described in Marianne Moore's poem "The Paper Nautilus."
- "Argonauta" is the name of a chapter in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea.
- Paper nautiluses were caught in the The Swiss Family Robinson novel.
- Argonauts gave their name to an Arabidopsis thaliana mutation and by extension to Argonaute proteins.
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