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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests. Now scientists say those fragile shells do something even more surprising ...