Researchers uncovered one vertebra, and based on its size, they estimate the massive creature was at least 30 feet long when ...

Giant ‘sea monster’ fossil unearthed in Mississippi mud - Mosasaurs were apex predators, and at their largest, they could ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it wasn’t an ordinary fossil. This particular find shimmered with the ...

Imagine hiking through New Zealand’s wild Fiordland, mist curling around ancient peaks, waterfalls thundering into ...

Based on the fossil record, ammonites came in a wide range of sizes and shapes, from smaller than an inch to as large as nine feet wide. Some ammonites had long, straight shells, while others had ...

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 ...

Examine remarkable fossil evidence of long-ago events in the Last Impressions gallery. From 200-million-year-old wave ripples on beach sand to a petrified tree stump, dinosaur footprints, and a giant ...

Koichi Fukuoka’s career as a copperplate engraver took an unexpected turn after he encountered fossils of ammonites, a spiral-shelled creature that lived in the age of the dinosaurs. The artist ...