For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests ...

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 ...

Scientists in China uncover crystal-filled dinosaur eggs, revealing a glittering twist in prehistoric life and evolution.

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an extraordinary window into the evolutionary origins of bird-like behavior.

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

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 ...

It’s the ultimate prehistoric time capsule, and Albany Medical Center is trying to unlock it. The hospital is looking inside two of its most awe-inspiring artifacts, which include a million-year-old ...

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 ...

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...

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 ...

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.