Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

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.

Regarding similarities between Ammonite and Moabite religious practice ... Moab was originally a name for an area, and the ...

Ammonite' can refer to ammonoids (animals in the class Ammonoidea) which first appeared about 450 million years ago. Ammonites started out in life with a tiny shell and built new living chambers onto ...