Shells could be a loose spiral or tightly curled with whorls touching ... which is the noticeable difference in appearance between sexes. But when ammonite fossils that looked unique were found in the ...

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 ...

You can display your salt dough fossil or make more to hide in the garden and ... Their growing shells commonly formed into a tightly wrapped spiral, but some ammonites had stranger shapes. Look ...

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.

Nine-year-old Eli spotted a 200-million-year-old fossil in a rocky cliff face A nine-year-old fossil hunter had the find of his life when he stumbled on a 200-million-year-old ammonite. Eli was ...