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“Golden Ammonites Peek Out From Black Shale”: What Makes These 183-Million-Year-Old Fossils So Sparkly?
IFL Science 23 Feb 2026
“When you go to the quarries, golden ammonites peek out from black shale slabs,” said Rowan Martindale, an associate professor at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences and co-author of the 2023 study, in a release at the time.
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Ammonites survived asteroid impact that killed off dinosaurs, new evidence suggests
Phys Dot Org 07 Jan 2026
... thought to have perished at this K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary were the ammonites.
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Ammonites Survived The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs, So What Killed Them Not Long After?
IFL Science 05 Jan 2026
Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks were well positioned to inherit oceans now cleared of competitors.
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