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 muscles and organs of an ammonite — an extinct relative of cuttlefish and squid with coiled shells and tentacles — have been reconstructed in 3D for the first time. The achievement has allowed a ...

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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 ...

An enormous fossil weighing almost 210 pounds and measuring around two feet in diameter has been found on the Isle of Wight. The ammonite was spotted and pried loose from surrounding rock by ...

A giant fossil ammonite has been recovered from a fallen boulder on a beach. The edge of the creature's shell was spotted in the block by fossil collector Jack Wonfor on the Isle of Wight's southwest ...

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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 ...