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 ...

Tired of the Happiest Season discourse? Well, let’s go, lesbians, because there’s another big LGBTQ film coming out today: Ammonite. Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in a sweeping ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

Long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, the oceans were full of creatures known as ammonites. Scientists have now created a number of robotic ammonites, to see how the different shell shapes they ...

Mary Anning, the real-life heroine of British director Francis Lee’s Ammonite (in theaters Friday, and available on VOD on December 4th), is best known as a renowned 19th-century paleontologist whose ...

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 ...

The best clues about ammonite diets come from occasionally-preserved jaws – similar to the hard beaks of modern octopus and squid. When paleontologists looked in detail at the feeding apparatus of the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...