An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fossils are a direct window into a time that can span back millions of years. The well-preserved bones, teeth, and claws help in scientific research and are no less fascinating to visitors in the ...

New research shows that baby dinosaurs played a crucial role in feeding Jurassic predators and keeping ancient ecosystems alive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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 ...

A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the samples.

CHINA — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an "atomic clock" method to date the ...