Believe it or not, southern Alberta was once underwater and home to some pretty large sea creatures. On Jan. 26, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology answered a call from a mining company to ...

An ammonite mining company is offering a reward after a fossil worth thousands of dollars was stolen in broad daylight Thursday. Miners at the open pit site near Lethbridge, Alta., had just recovered ...

75M-year-old fossil found in southern Alberta A fossil believed to be 75 million years old was discovered in southern Alberta. Terry Vogt reports.

1:47 Prehistoric fossil stolen from southern Alberta mine Raymond/Magrath RCMP have laid charges against two men in the theft of a rare ammonite fossil valued at more than $40,000, but haven’t been ...

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

For millennia, the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy – or Siksikaitsitapi – have harvested horn-like ammonite fossils called iniskim to attract buffalo and to bring good luck. It wasn’t until 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 ...