Ammonites are a group of extinct cephalopod mollusks with ribbed spiral shells. They are exceptionally diverse and well known to fossil lovers. Researchers have developed the first biomechanical model ...

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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 ...

A giant fossil ammonite has been recovered from a fallen boulder on a beach. The edge of the creature's shell was spotted in the block by fossil collector Jack Wonfor on the Isle of Wight's southwest ...

Ammonites are among the most common marine fossils from the age of the dinosaurs, but no one has found one like this before. It shows one of the swimming marine molluscs without its distinctive spiral ...

Jack Wonfor (pictured) is among the fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight who found a 211-pound fossilized seashell. It’s a 115-million-year-old ammonite, best described as a “squid-like cephalopod ...

In an interesting discovery, paleontologists from Universität Hohenheim's Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart have unearthed a fossilized fish that tells of a tale of a meal gone awry from 180 ...

The word “fossil” tends to evokes calcified bones or shells — the “hard” body parts of an animal that died long ago. That’s partially because it is very rare for soft tissue — literal flesh making up ...

When I was searching for ammonite fossils last year, I tended to concentrate on searching out the distinctive coiled shapes that were the shells of these once-abundant marine invertebrates. Other ...

Left: 3D reconstruction. Right: Labelled internal organs. Credit: Cherns et al. For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D ...