Huge ancestors of squid up to 1.8 metres wide once littered the sea floor in what is now East Sussex before being wiped out by a meteor, according to new research. Giant ammonites once thrived on both ...

The spiral-shaped fossil, believed to be about 100-million-years-old, was unearthed in Sandown in March. Alex Peaker from the island's Dinosaur Isle museum found the ammonite in debris following a ...

Peterborough palaeontologists have made an extraordinary discovery not far from the city – a rare giant ammonite that swam in the oceans 99 million years ago. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription ...

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 ...

Jack Wonfor (pictured) is among the fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight who found a 211-pound fossilized seashell. It’s a 115-million-year-old ammonite, best described as a “squid-like cephalopod ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest ammonite specimen in the world housed in the Munster Natural History Museum, Germany (Christina Ifrim/PA) (PA Media) ...

Peterborough palaeontologists have made an extraordinary discovery not far from the city – a rare giant ammonite that swam in the oceans 99 million years ago. Fossils Galore Museum found the rare ...

Giant ammonites once thrived on both sides of the Atlantic – in southern England and Mexico – before suffering the same fate as the dinosaurs. The largest ammonite specimen in the world housed in the ...