Ammonites are among the most common marine fossils from the age of the dinosaurs, but no one has found one like this before. It shows one of the swimming marine molluscs without its distinctive spiral ...

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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 ...

Beautifully preserved fossil ammonite collected from 165-million-year-old Jurassic site in Gloucestershire, UK; 3D reconstruction of combined neutron and X-ray images of fossil shows internal muscles ...

Ammonoids, ancestors of today's octopus, squid and cuttlefish, bobbed and jetted their way through the oceans for around 340 million years beginning long before the age of the dinosaurs. If you look ...

In an interesting discovery, paleontologists from Universität Hohenheim's Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart have unearthed a fossilized fish that tells of a tale of a meal gone awry from 180 ...

Left: 3D reconstruction. Right: Labelled internal organs. Credit: Cherns et al. For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D ...

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The word “fossil” tends to evokes calcified bones or shells — the “hard” body parts of an animal that died long ago. That’s partially because it is very rare for soft tissue — literal flesh making up ...

Researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging. They found that the now-extinct molluscs sported hyponomes: tube-like syphons through which water ...