PERAMBALUR: The unique Ammonite Museum in Perambalur which showcased 120-million-year-old marine fossils has been closed for relocation, upsetting many people including environmentalists and students.

While geologists often use ammonites to help date other fossils, Ms. Moubayed said it is no wonder that some people find them to be “really good meditation tools.” Ammonites “thrived in deep ...

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 ...

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

Mr Wonfor, who runs Wight Coast Fossils which provides guided tours on the island, said it's particularly rare to find an ammonite with a complete rostrum - the curved projection coming off the ...

Instead, the final chapter in ammonite evolutionary history is more complex. “Understanding how and why biodiversity has changed through time is very challenging,” said lead author Dr Joseph ...

"Analyzing the existing Late Cretaceous ammonite fossil record as though it were the complete, global story is probably why previous researchers have thought they were in long-term ecological ...

Dr James Witts, a Natural History Museum scientist who was the senior author of the new paper, says that the story of the ammonites is a cautionary tale for researchers relying on parts of the fossil ...

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 giant fossil ammonite has been recovered from a fallen boulder on a beach. The edge of the creature's shell was spotted in the block by fossil collector Jack Wonfor on the Isle of Wight's ...