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What Is an Ammonite? The Ancient Ocean Animal Inside the Spiral
Ammonites carried their homes through ancient seas, building one chamber after another until stone inherited the spiral. Here is the real animal inside the fossil.
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What Is an Ammonite Fossil? The Ancient Ocean Inside the Spiral
Ammonites carried their homes through ancient seas, adding one chamber after another as they grew. Millions of years later, their stone spirals still hold a map of vanished oceans.
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When an Inland Sea Became Stone: Fossilized Druzy Coral from Ohio
Long before fields and highways, warm seawater covered Ohio. Some of its corals survived as stone, and some grew a second secret life lined with quartz.