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Interesting Facts about Ammonites

  1. Ammonites were predatory animals.
  2. To capture their prey Ammonites used their tentacles to pull in their prey and then used sharp, beak-        like jaws to eat their prey.
  3. Ammonites could grow to 3 ft in diameter.
  4. While Ammonites were alive they constantly built new shell.
  5. Ammonites went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs.
  6. Ammonites are among the most commonly found fossils today.
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