While dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid struck Earth, ammonites survived the massive explosion, only to ...

Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks ...

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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 ...

A geology professor and his student at Rogers State University (RSU) made a remarkable discovery just before spring break. Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ...

ALL students of ammonites will welcome this, latest addition to Mr. Buckman's work. It contains nearly fifty excellently reproduced figures of as many different species, accompanied by the original as ...

About 80 million years ago, human-size sea creatures with tentacle-like arms and coiled shells up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) wide glided through the Atlantic Ocean, a new study reveals. These creatures ...

Beautifully preserved fossil ammonite collected from 165-million-year-old Jurassic site in Gloucestershire, UK; 3D reconstruction of combined neutron and X-ray images of fossil shows internal muscles ...

THE death of S. S. Buckman has brought to a stop, though not to an end, one of his most remarkable works—those descriptions and figures of Jurassic ammonites, normally from English localities, which ...

Researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging. They found that the now-extinct molluscs sported hyponomes: tube-like syphons through which water ...