For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare ...

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 ...

Amber can be a veritable treasure trove of ancient animals and insects, but it most commonly captures creatures that lived in forests – understandable, given the stuff starts life as tree sap. But now ...

In this interview with American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Neil Landman, you’ll learn about the ammonites, incredible, ancient creatures who looked like a cross between squid and snail — ...

Millions of years ago, a squidlike creature called an ammonite died with the remains of its last meal wedged between its teeth. Now, new high-tech images reveal that meal — a mini-snail and three tiny ...

An incredible 99-million-year-old chunk of amber contains several trapped marine gastropods, as well as an extinct ammonite, according to a new paper. Amber is fossilized tree resin, and occasionally ...

Can the mass extinction of the amazing sea creatures called ammonites teach business owners anything about survival? For small businesses to compete online against a behemoth like Amazon, Internet ...

Sometime between 163 million and 145 million years ago, the lonely corpse of a dead ammonite gently rucked up the ocean floor, driven by calm and constant currents. Now, anyone can explore a digital ...

Millions of years ago, a squid-like creature called an ammonite died with the remains of its last meal wedged between its teeth. Now, new high-tech images reveal that meal — a mini-snail and three ...

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 ...

Some 150 million years ago, a squid-like creature that lived in a coil-shaped shell, also known as an ammonite, died. Its shell drifted to the bottom of a tropical lagoon, dragging along in the ...

Scientists studying ammonite fossils say they may have have found a clue to the prehistoric creatures' feeding habits. From X-rays images, the researchers were able to create a 3D reconstruction of a ...