By Chantel Tattoli The swirly shell that held the voice of the Little Mermaid in Disney’s 2023 live-action adaptation looked like the ancient marine mollusk called an ammonite. That’s because ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a geological process known as opalization, wherein organic material from ...

When you think of extinction and extinct creatures, dinosaurs and ammonites are likely the first that come to mind. These marine creatures, whose existence spans over 350 million years, became extinct ...

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

Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found. Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found. The marine molluscs with coiled shells ...

Ammonites were flourishing shortly before their extinction. New research suggests that the iconic marine molluscs would probably have survived for longer had Earth not been struck by a meteorite 66 ...

ABSTRACT: The amber deposits from the Albian-Cenomanian in Myanmar have emerged as a pivotal source for exceptionally abundant fossil insect fauna since their initial discovery. Recent studies have ...

Tracking shot moving slowly past a big sea creature fossilized in rock Prehistoric Fossil Of Sea Shell Ammonite Being Excavated Large sea creature fossilized in rock being excavated with brush big ...

“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 ...