An ammonite mining company is offering a reward after a fossil worth thousands of dollars was stolen in broad daylight Thursday. Miners at the open pit site near Lethbridge, Alta., had just recovered ...

Believe it or not, southern Alberta was once underwater and home to some pretty large sea creatures. On Jan. 26, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology answered a call from a mining company to ...

An ammonite mining company is offering a reward after a fossil worth thousands of dollars was stolen in broad daylight Thursday. Workers at the mine near Lethbridge, Alta., were taking a lunch break ...

For millennia, the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy – or Siksikaitsitapi – have harvested horn-like ammonite fossils called iniskim to attract buffalo and to bring good luck. It wasn’t until the ...

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

He started to explain the folklore behind it, but my mind had already drifted. Ammonites were marine creatures, the closest ...

Earth once hosted more than 10,000 species of these ancient marine predators. Find out how they lived, when they vanished, and how much we know about them today. Based on the fossil record, ammonites ...

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LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.—An ammonite mining company is offering a reward after a fossil worth thousands of dollars was stolen in broad daylight Thursday. Miners at the open pit site near Lethbridge, Alta., ...