The fossils are actually from a grouping of straight, or uncoiled, ammonites known as Baculites but the implications should hold across a great swathe of species.

Such uncoiled ammonites, which tend to appear sporadically in evolutionary records, once were viewed as evolutionary dead-ends, serving only as a fountainhead for their more symmetrical descendants.

Ammonites' last meal: New light on past marine food chains Date: January 6, 2011 Source: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Summary: Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of ...

New research published in Science shows ammonite "teeth" for the first time, suggesting that these invertebrates were filter feeders. Knowing that ammonites probably ate plankton provides insight ...

Ammonites, which evolved about 416 million years ago, were once the most abundant animals of the ancient seas. Scientists have identified more than 10,000 ammonite species, such as Arnioceras ...

TIN STAR season 2 sees Anna Worth join Pastor Johan and his family in the Ammonite religion. But what is the Ammonite religion and are the Ammonites real?

This ancient sea creature fossilized in tree resin. How'd that happen? In what may be a first of its kind, a lump of amber has preserved the shell of an ammonite and other shoreline life in ...

Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of an important group of Ammonites, which are among the best known fossils. Using synchrotron X-rays, they imaged three fossilized mouths ...

The fossils are actually from a grouping of straight, or uncoiled, ammonites known as Baculites but the implications should hold across a great swathe of species.