For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

An oddly shaped fossil in Hokkaido turned out to be a new species of ammonite, spiral-shaped marine creatures from ancient times, researchers said. The newly identified ammonite, classified as a ...

Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks were well positioned to inherit oceans now cleared of competitors. Yet for ...

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The muscles and organs of an ammonite — an extinct relative of cuttlefish and squid with coiled shells and tentacles — have been reconstructed in 3D for the first time. The achievement has allowed a ...

Left: 3D reconstruction. Right: Labelled internal organs. Credit: Cherns et al. For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D ...

Ammonites are a group of fossil marine mollusk animals closely related to living cephalopods (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) and shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The ...

This story was originally published on Jan. 19, 2022. Lily Ganshorn stood proud as she brushed her hand across an ancient ammonite fossil on display in her family's garage in Martensville, Sask. "I'm ...

The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell. By Sabrina Imbler If anxious humans have nightmares of being naked in public, an anxious ...

Michael Shideler's day-to-day work is what most little kids dream of doing when they grow up — using big machinery to search for fossils. But last month, the superintendent of Enchanted Designs ...