Nearly 400 million years before Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes composed his ode to the shell of a cephalopod mollusk known as a nautilus, similar creatures called ammonites were abundant ...

This shows Kenneth De Baets with a fully grown manticoceras (Late Devonian Period, Morocco): One of the largest ammonites of the Devonian Period. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

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 ancient ...

The muscles and organs of an ammonite — an extinct relative of cuttlefish and squid with coiled shells and tentacles — have been reconstructed in 3D for the first time. The achievement has allowed a ...

For 300 million years, they were the ultimate survivors. They successfully negotiated three mass extinctions, only to die out eventually at the end of the Cretaceous along with the dinosaurs: ...

In amongst the tongue-like radula, the X-ray images found the traces of a final meal Ask someone to name their favourite fossils and the chances are they will point to the ammonites. These coiled ...

Ammonites are a group of fossil marine mollusk animals closely related to living cephalopods (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) and shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The ...

Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of an important group of Ammonites, which are among the best known fossils. Using synchrotron X-rays, they imaged three fossilized mouths with ...

Perambalur district collector P Sri Venkada Priya on Saturday reviewed the progress of an exclusive museum for ammonites and fossils proposed in the town. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine ...

Ammonites – the ancient relatives of squid and octopuses – left behind some of the most common and beautiful fossils. But look closely at their elegant, spiral shells and you might be able to spot a ...

Ask someone to name their favourite fossils and the chances are they will point to the ammonites. These coiled remains of ancient squid-like creatures are in every child's rock collection. The animals ...