Summary: <p>Is it extinct? Is it alive? What is the difference between the ammonite and the nautilus? Did Kate get the two confused her whole life until a few months ago and thought they were both extinct?</p> <p>Maybe.</p> <p>A fossilized ammonite shell:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-820" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ammonite-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>Another fossilized ammonite shell of a different shape:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-821" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ammonite2-286x300.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="300"></p> <p>A third fossilized ammonite shell of a yet different shape:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-822" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ammonite3-233x300.jpg" alt="" width="233" height="300"></p> <p>A gigantic fossilized ammonite shell:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-823" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/giantammonite-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>A fossilized ammonite shell of gem quality, called an ammolite:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-824" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ammolite-300x216.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="216"></p> <p>This is what an ammonite might have looked like when it was alive. I drew this myself IN MS PAINT because I couldn’t find anything online I liked. There’s 15 minutes of my life I won’t get back:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-825" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ammonitealive-300x295.png" alt="" width="300" height="295"></p> <p>This is an alive and not extinct nautilus:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-826" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nautilus1-300x205.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="205"></p>
