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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Saoirse and I choreographed the scene ourselves,” Winslet told THR about one of the film’s explicit sex scenes. “It’s definitely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Koichi Fukuoka’s career as a copperplate engraver took an unexpected turn after he encountered fossils of ammonites, a spiral-shelled creature that lived in the age of the dinosaurs. The artist, who ...

Love stories are as old as the movies themselves. Older in fact. And yet, until fairly recently, love stories between people of the same sex have been depressingly rare—and rarer still in period ...

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in a quiet, restrained, unromantic story of a woman who excelled despite poverty and a scant education. The film world loves to discover a new director with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Loosely based on the later life of paleontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847), Francis Lee’s queer romance movie Ammonite is a clinical but intriguing excavation of historical fact. The film reworks ...