Scientific Name: Ammonoidea • Type: Prehistoric Animals • Diet: Carnivore
With squidlike tentacles extending from their distinctive multichambered shells, the extinct marine predators known as ammonites were once among the most successful and diverse animals on Earth, true ammonites are a suborder of ammonoids that didn’t appear until about 200 million years ago, in the Jurassic period.
During their long history, ammonites survived three mass extinctions but came to an end 66 million years ago, during the planet’s most recent mass extinction event. In the final days of the Cretaceous, a 7.5-mile-wide (12km-wide) asteroid slammed into Earth and killed off more than three-quarters of all species on the planet. Some scientists hypothesize that the ammonites couldn’t survive the aftermath because of the sudden decline of their main food source: marine plankton”
Source: National geographic
By being in the presence of these extinct fascinating creatures, among many things we shine a light on our finitude, no matter how big their species developed in the past or in which place in the food chain they where at, they still perish when faced with the unpredictable.
For that, let’s not waste anymore time.
Curious fact: Humans – homo sapiens sapiens are on the top of the food web nowadays.
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