Ammolite comes from the fossilized shells of extinct squidlike critters called ammonites. Scientists knew the secret to the fossils’ flamboyant appearance lay somewhere in their layers of nacre, or ...

At IFLScience, we often like to talk about the Mantelpiece Of Dreams, a line-up of rare geological trinkets we’d like to ...

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, who ...

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A shelled fossil discovered in an amateur’s collection may harbor the first direct evidence of prehistoric sharks eating ammonites some 150 million years ago. The palm-sized ammonite, an extinct ...

An oddly shaped fossil in Hokkaido turned out to be a new species of ammonite, spiral-shaped marine creatures from ancient times, researchers said. The newly identified ammonite, classified as a ...

In Ammonite, Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play two women who embark on a romantic relationship in England in the 1800s Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are joining their star power in their latest ...

Love stories are as old as the movies themselves. Older in fact. And yet, until fairly recently, love stories between people of the same sex have been depressingly rare—and rarer still in period ...

Ammonite is a brand new drama loosely inspired by the life of British palaeontologist Mary Anning ( Kate Winslet), and her romantic relationship with Charlotte Murchison ( Saoirse Ronan). Of course, ...

A day at the beach isn't what it used to be in these COVID times. But as places to be stuck during lockdown go, you could do worse than the wind-swept strip of sand just up the lane from Kate ...