These animals are known from the Jurassic Period, from about 200 million years ago. Most ammonites died out at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million ...

"I was a bit of a nerd growing up and liked dinosaurs and rocks and the same things he's into to be honest and I think I've passed it onto him." Eli spotted the ancient ammonite when he was out ...

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 ...

suggests that these iconic marine molluscs were flourishing right up until their sudden demise alongside the dinosaurs. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine mollusks that belonged to the class ...

Ammonites are a group of extinct shelled cephalopods related to today's squids and octopuses. Most ammonites died out 66 million years ago, at the same time as dinosaurs. Fossilised ammonite shells ...

Scientists have discovered 30 dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong on Port Island, a remote site off the northern coast.

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 ...

This is an ammonite. Ammonites were once sea creatures with squid-like tentacles and a curly shell like a snail. They lived at the same time as dinosaurs. When an ammonite died, its shell would ...

The Development Bureau announces that an excavation of dinosaur bone fossils on Port Island has been completed.

Dinosaur fossils dating back 66 million years ... including ostracod and ammonite fossils from the early Jurassic and Devonian periods (about 190 million to 400 million years ago).

Much of this rich life—including all dinosaurs, pterosaurs, pliosaurs, and ammonites—perished in the extinction event at the end of the period 65 million years ago. In fact, the land ...