Good day dear hive friends, I hope you all have happy holidays and a day that has brought one or the other pleasant experience into your life! In my post, I would like to discuss an interesting type of fossil and hope you are able to learn new things about it.
Here are some pictures of a fossilized creature which is also called fossil and the species you can see here also bears the name Ammonite. It is assumed that it could be a living being which once lived in the sea and had a appearance something reminiscent of a spiral and from the remains scientists can determine how the way of life was and probably ammonites could not swim and moved predominantly at the bottom of the seas and in the Cretaceous period it probably extinct. Discoveries of different specimens suggest that this creature may also have been between 20 cm and several meters tall, but as an extinct species, you can only puzzle about exact appearance and try to reconstruct how it looked and it is estimated that it could also have had several arms to move around and it can be found worldwide in the seas and occurs more frequently. Even in ancient times, a lot was already devoted to the research of this living being and also the Greeks and Romans dedicated themselves to the topic and the Roman scholar Pliny the elder already wrote about it and called it at the time Coruna ammonis and often fossils in mythology are generally associated with mythical creatures and also ammonite is also associated with the god Amun-Re from Egyptian mythology which was often depicted in the form of an animal who had horns which were something reminiscent of ammonites. Even today it is of interest to science and the emergence can be traced back to the fact that an animal died to the seabed and was covered by different layers of rocks and over long periods of time this creates pressure which slowly replaces the organic material with minerals. Also from a symbolic point of view, ammonite is anchored and is also often seen as a symbol of origin, eternity and the eternal now and due to the appearance which looks like a spiral, it is also associated with transformation and is often associated with femininity.
Thank you very much for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about this interesting topic! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens!
