There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...
Digitization will soon allow researchers around the globe to access the latest specimens in the National Fossil Collection Abigail Eisenstadt Ammonites are a family of prehistoric marine mollusks that ...
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 and ...
A museum has received a prestigious award from Arts Council England for one its oldest collections. Lyme Regis Museum, which opened in 1923, has been given designated status for its Jurassic coast ...
Los Angeles, CA (June 27, 2024) —A new study published in the journal Nature Communications led by paleontologists at the University of Bristol along with a team of international researchers, ...
April 13 (UPI) --Ammonoids, an ancient group of mollusks, used the wavy lines found inside their shells to fine-tune their buoyancy, according to a new study. Prior to their disappearance at the end ...
Ammonites belonged to the cephalopod group of marine invertebrates, current members of which include octopi, squid and cuttlefish. Unlike those examples, however, ammonites had protective outer shells ...
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 ...