Shelled creatures roamed oceans millions of years ago by jet propulsion, suggests innovative 3D imaging Analysis of an extraordinary fossil discovered in a Gloucestershire gravel pit has given fresh ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ammonites are a group of extinct shelled cephalopods related to today's squids and octopuses. Most ammonites died out 66 million years ago, at the same time as dinosaurs. Fossilised ammonite shells ...

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 ...

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while their relatives, the nautiloids, did. Life in the ancient oceans wasn’t easy, ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests ammonites did not vanish immediately after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Fossils from Denmark indicate some survived for up to 200,000 ...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset Coast from the age of ten in 1809. Her fossil finds were sought out by the ...