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 ...
Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...
According to the Springfield Museums, this hands-on exhibition offers an array of authentic dinosaur eggs and nests that have been collected from all over the globe. Dinosaur eggs were first ...
Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how old the eggs were by measuring accumulated lead and uranium atoms in ...
Laser method could help to pinpoint the age of many fossils, but some palaeontologists say further research is needed to verify the technique. Scientists in China have calculated the direct age of a ...
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 ...
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New dinosaur species leaves experts 'flabbergasted'
A newly described dinosaur seems to have come with its own built-in egg-grabber. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, researchers ...
Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
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.
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