'Stunning' 100 million year old fossil found on British beach
The extremely well-preserved ammonite - believed to be between 100 to 105 million years-old - has been discovered on the Isle ...
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Opalized ammonites are some of the most stunning fossils you’ll ever see
Ammonites are primarily found in marine sedimentary deposits, where they were once abundant during the Late Cretaceous period. This was the time of T-Rex when massive dinosaurs roamed the land.
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What is an ammonite?
These animals are known from the Jurassic Period, from about 200 million years ago. Most ammonites died out at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
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Rare bird skull from the age of dinosaurs helps illuminate avian evolution
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
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Fossil find at Isle of Wight beauty spot is "rare" ammonite
A "stunning" and well-preserved ammonite fossil — believed to be between 100 to 105 million-years-old — has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Fossil collector Jack Wonfor, 24, and his 12-year-old ...
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Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
Birds evolved during the Jurassic Period from small feathered dinosaurs. The oldest-known bird ... plesiosaurs and ...
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‘Lucky discovery’ as dinosaur bone fossils found in Hong Kong for the first time
Dinosaur fossils dating back 66 million years ... including ostracod and ammonite fossils from the early Jurassic and Devonian periods (about 190 million to 400 million years ago).