Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living bit of the animals) and hard external shells, which, according to a paper published ...

Koichi Fukuoka’s career as a copperplate engraver took an unexpected turn after he encountered fossils of ammonites, a spiral-shelled creature that lived in the age of the dinosaurs. The artist, who ...

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 ...

Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found. Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found. The marine molluscs with coiled shells and ...

A small team of researchers from Germany, Mexico and the U.K. has found evidence suggesting that the reason a species of ammonite grew into giants was because of the increasing size of the mosasaurs ...

They found that the now-extinct molluscs sported hyponomes: tube-like syphons through which water is expelled to jet propel animals forward in water, as found in modern squid and octopuses. They also ...

Named after the Egyptian ram-horned god Ammon, ammonites were prehistoric, squid-like creatures that lived inside coil-shaped shells. They became extinct, together with the dinosaurs, about 65 million ...

Ask someone to name their favourite fossils and the chances are they will point to the ammonites. These coiled remains of ancient squid-like creatures are in every child's rock collection. The animals ...

Many constructional and taphonomic incongruencies dissolve if ammonites are modeled as active Cartesian divers, whose last septum remained a rubber-like, uncalcified membrane until the next chamber ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — As her mother cheered from the sideline of a JV soccer game last fall in Bend, 7-year-old Naomi Vaughan went off to play in the nearby sagebrush surrounding the soccer fields. Naomi ...

A sea creature that lived 99 million years ago has been found preserved in amber in an ultra-rare finding. The fossil, found in northern Myanmar, is the first ever known example of an ammonite to be ...

Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found. The marine molluscs with coiled shells and one of palaeontology’s great icons flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than ...