This Jurassic ammonite looks like it has been dipped in gold ... Among the Blackfoot people of North America, ammonites were called insikim or buffalo stones, because they look like sleeping bison.

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have joined forces with a major US Museum and European partners to explore an extraordinary Jurassic dinosaur site in the badlands of Wyoming, USA.

Based on the fossil record, ammonites came in a wide range of sizes and shapes, from smaller than an inch to as large as nine feet wide. Some ammonites had long, straight shells, while others had ...

Jurassic ammonites, bivalves, mammaliaform teeth and lizards are ... These Late Jurassic trees are found in what’s now South America. In life they were wind pollinated and had two types of cones – ...

Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half, began to break up by the mid-Jurassic ... and coil-shelled ammonites were abundant.