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 ...

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 ...

We now know ammonites are extinct cephalopod molluscs related to squids and octopuses, which lived in the seas of the Mesozoic Era between about 201 and 66 million years ago. Their shells are ...

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 ...

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 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 ...