Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Some extinct species left copious fossil remnants of their existence. Ammonites—an extinct type of cephalopod—are one such example. From the Devonian right up until the Paleocene, wherever ...

What Naomi Vaughan found was the fossil of an ammonite, ... So she went over to some sagebrush by the soccer field, poked around in the dirt, and picked up a small rock.

While ammonite shells are abundant in the fossil record, it was only recently that scientists have found a very rare fossil of the soft parts of an ammonite. However, fossilised evidence of ammonite ...

If the tiny invertebrates were washed in, then additional small fossils should have been found in the rest of the ammonite’s body chamber. Instead, the diminutive animals were only found in the ...

Ammonites, echinoids, and brachiopods, oh my! After evaluating all the data, it named Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex the best place to find fossils in the U.K.

A state-of-the-art fossil discovery technique shows that squids originated and quickly rose to become dominant predators in ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Ammonite fossils are the mineralized spiral shells of squid-like critters that went extinct at the same time as most of the dinosaurs — about 66 million years ago.

The ammonite fossil stretched 1.8 meters (6 feet), but it was incomplete as is often the case with big fossils (the Patagotitan at London’s Natural History Museum is actually based on the ...