Discover some of the fascinating fossils ... their shell as they grew. The animal only lived in one of these chambers and used the other spaces to help it float. Some ammonite species were tiny, ...

Nearly all fossils we find - around 99% - are from marine animals such as shellfish and sharks. This is because they lived in the sea, where sand or mud could ... ground water dissolves the buried ...

This individual literally left its mark in the form of shark bites—and a tooth lodged in the sea cow’s neck. The irregular distribution of the bites on the fossils indicated to the team that ...

For example, rocks that once formed the seafloor might be forced up to form a mountain range. This means that you can sometimes find the fossils of sea creatures at the peak of a mountain.