“It’s very rare to find some sea animals in amber.” Researchers suspect that this resin came from a tree on the shoreline, and that it picked up a discarded ammonite shell and other flotsam ...

Researchers report a marine ammonite preserved in Burmese amber. Because the source of amber is fossilized tree resin, the inclusion of aquatic and marine animals in amber is exceptionally rare.

A sea creature that lived 99 million years ago has been found preserved in amber in an ultra-rare finding. The fossil, found in northern Myanmar, is the first ever known example of an ammonite to ...

Ammonites are extinct sea-dwelling relatives of squid. It is incredibly rare to find sea life trapped in amber because the fossilised resin is produced by land-based trees. "The find was a big ...

“It’s very rare to find ... sea animals in amber.” The ammonite specimen is so singular, Greshko writes, that it as “eyebrow-raising as finding dinosaur remains on the bottom of an ancient ...

Scientists have found an extinct squid ancestor in a 100-million-year-old, 3-centimeter-long piece of Burmese amber. The ammonite (a marine mollusk) was the last thing researchers expected to ...

An incredible 99-million-year-old chunk of amber contains several trapped marine gastropods, as well as an extinct ammonite, according to a new paper. Amber is fossilized tree resin, and ...

But they were accompanied by some strange bedfellows – sea snails, sea slaters and an ammonite were all found in the piece, too. Marine animals are rare inclusions in amber, for the obvious ...

And how is it that most of the contents of this amber are far younger than the biggest mystery of all: One very, very old ammonite. The blob is a mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, and the study was ...

This is the first time that paleontologists have unearthed ammonite in amber because the creatures, which were ancient relatives of modern squids and octopuses, were not known to venture to the land.

Most amber inclusions are organisms that lived in ... we constructed a temporary exhibit with hundreds of ammonite shells from all over ... Using state-of-the-art imaging techniques ...