In the new film Ammonite, the brilliant self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) finds herself unexpectedly consumed by a love affair with the sullen wife of a geologist. It’s 1840s ...

Now that more people have a chance to watch Ammonite, they may be wondering about the ending. Here’s an explanation of where the film leaves Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet’s characters. Winslet plays ...

A shelled fossil discovered in an amateur’s collection may harbor the first direct evidence of prehistoric sharks eating ammonites some 150 million years ago. The palm-sized ammonite, an extinct ...

Kate Winslet (left) and Saoirse Ronan star in director Francis Lee's film "Ammonite." (Courtesy NEON) They say you know a movie is doing something right when you can feel its weather. “Ammonite,” a ...

For filmmaker Francis Lee, his lesbian love story Ammonite between notable 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning and socialite Charlotte Murchison wasn’t so much a response to the uber-conservative ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

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 ...

A day at the beach isn't what it used to be in these COVID times. But as places to be stuck during lockdown go, you could do worse than the wind-swept strip of sand just up the lane from Kate ...

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play emotionally isolated mid-19th century women of different classes opening themselves up to passion in God's Own Country director Francis Lee's second feature, ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been in a shop that sells fossils — the natural history museum gift shop, the nature store in the mall, and so on — you’ve probably seen an ammonite. Its chambered coils make a distinct ...