One of the distinguishing characteristics of Ohio’s indigenous American Indian Hopewell culture, which dates from around AD 1 to 400, is the use of unusual raw materials that found their way into Ohio ...

Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Digitization will soon allow researchers around the globe to access the latest specimens in the National Fossil Collection Abigail Eisenstadt Ammonites are a family of prehistoric marine mollusks that ...

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 ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

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 ...