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 used a particle accelerator the size of a stadium in order to gain this unprecedented look inside these ...
Before long-necked dinosaurs like Brontosaurus grew into their giant bodies, they began as baby dinosaurs with some unusual facial features that changed as they aged, according to a new study. Before ...
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Arctic, unearthing dinosaur eggs in a region previously thought inhospitable to such life. This finding challenges existing theories about ...
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 ...
Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery — a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs belonging to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs. A study of the ...
It was in egg-cellent condition. Argentine paleontologists found a real diamond in the rough after happening across a perfectly preserved 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation. “It was ...
Hands wearing knitted gloves hold a small drill in one hand and a rubber bulb in the other. The instruments are poised over a fossilized dinosaur egg. A researcher takes a sample from a dinosaur egg ...
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 ...
It’s hard to imagine that fierce dinosaurs once emerged from small, fragile eggs. And it may be even harder to imagine that some of those eggs, when fossilized, could have been preserved for tens of ...