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 ...

The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell. By Sabrina Imbler If anxious humans have nightmares of being naked in public, an anxious ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about how mosasaurs deftly cracked into the coiled shells of ammonites. The immense, seagoing lizards had a well-honed technique for breaking open the outer defenses of ...

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 ...

Ninety-nine million years ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach. Today, the resulting fossilized lump of amber is giving scientists an astonishing glimpse into life on a ...