When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos.

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

Debates about what dinosaurs look like have been raging for decades, and the appearance of their eggs is equally contested. Although the fossil record can provide paleontologists with clear clues ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown dinosaur species that lived around 190 million years ago alongside dozens of its unhatched eggs. A team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Learn about three momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record Paul M. Barrett Scientists who study dinosaurs make new discoveries in the field, extracting previously unknown specimens from the ...

The Tyrannosaurus at Spain’s Jurassic Museum of Asturias offer a speculative take on how dinosaurs mated. Mario modesto via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as ...