It doesn't appear dramatic at first glance. A spherical fossil discovered on dry ground in central India, one of many found ...

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 ...

Dinosaur eggs are turning out to be some of the most revealing fossils in modern paleontology, and a wave of discoveries in China is giving scientists an unusually pristine window into how these ...

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 ...

Half a dozen dinosaur eggs, each around the size of a grape, were recently saved from a construction site in China. Researchers say the tiny fossilized shells are exceptionally well preserved. When ...

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 ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise timekeepers in the deep past. By decoding the chemistry locked into these fragile ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...