Beneath the impressive white cliff face of Beachy Head I watch as 10-year-old Luke strikes a chisel with his geological hammer and splits open a chalk boulder. His eyes stare at a fossilised mollusc ...

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 over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

Amateur fossil hunters inspired by films such as Ammonite are descending on beaches in droves. Thousands of enthusiasts dreaming of walking with dinosaurs have taken up the craze as lockdown eases. It ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a ...

Fossils found in a South Dakota cliff have revealed that ancient, free-swimming shelled creatures called ammonites were permanent residents around a methane seep at the bottom of the inland sea that ...

Fossils found in the northern part of Hokkaido are a new type of ammonite, the once-ubiquitous spiral-shelled creatures that went extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, researchers said.

Paleontology wouldn’t be the same without Mary Anning. She scoured the dreary coast of southern England for secrets not seen since the Jurassic, fueling the nascent 19th-century field of fossil ...