Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a ...

A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years.Elliott, seven, moved into his new home in Matlock, Derbyshire, three months ago.During work in the front ...

The fossilized food remains of the extinct predatory fish Saurichthys reflect its spiral-shaped intestine. The spiral valve in fossils from Southern Switzerland is similar to that of sharks and ...

Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of numbers. But an extinct, ancient plant did not.

Structures in our galaxy's outer disk have been identified as likely fossil spiral arms, remnants disrupted by encounters with the gravity of nearby dwarf galaxies.

Ancient shark relative had buzzsaw mouth This is a re-creation of a Helicoprion, which lived 270 million years ago and is the only animal ever with a complete 360-degree spiral of teeth. Ray Troll ...

A CORRESPONDENT has raised the question as to whether there is any explanation for the fact that spiral shells of present-day marine gastropods wind in the opposite direction to similar shells ...

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...