Some fossils of long-extinct sea creatures display brilliant rainbow colors. Known as ammolite, these gems come from the fossilized shells of ammonites, squid-like marine animals that vanished with ...

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 minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They might be opalized or rainbow-colored, or perhaps glittering like an ornate lump ...

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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 ...

A pair of paleontologists at Universität Hohenheim's Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart has found a fossilized Jurassic-era fish that appears to have died after swallowing an overly large ...

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 ...

They found that the now-extinct molluscs sported hyponomes: tube-like syphons through which water is expelled to jet propel animals forward in water, as found in modern squid and octopuses. They also ...