A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and ...

The best ones are those which coil to the left. It also looks like the spiral shell of a conch. We don’t know what animal it was which was thus changed into stone.” An ammonite fossil collected from ...

A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his ...

Scientists believed that ammonites, like modern cephalopods, had soft body tissue with tentacles attached to their heads for catching prey. Fossil evidence indicates they had sharp, beaklike jaws ...

Yusuke Muramiya and other researchers from the Fukada Geological Institute discovered three ammonite fossils shaped like paper clips and featuring irregular whorls in the town of Nakagawa in 2015 ...

Watch the video above to find out how to make a fossil am­monite ... about how these ammonites lived, but it is thought they would have been slow swimmers due to the drag caused by their open shells.

But if you’re a true geology aficionado, you probably know that those are far from the most common fossils. Instead, things like ammonites or ... used as decorative stones for centuries ...

It was clear he had discovered something extraordinary with this ammonite fossil.” The fossil, according to Shelton, shows signs of preservation that give it a pearl-like iridescence ...