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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giant, human-sized ammonites — extinct relatives of cuttlefish and squid with coiled shells and tentacles — lived on both sides of the Atlantic 80 million years ago. This is the conclusion of experts ...

Earth once hosted more than 10,000 species of these ancient marine predators. Find out how they lived, when they vanished, and how much we know about them today. Based on the fossil record, ammonites ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...