Deep in Argentina’s Patagonia, scientists uncovered a miracle - a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg. Half pink, half white, it may hold an embryo inside, offering a direct glimpse ...

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A popular theme park is closing. That’s good news for dinosaur fans who want their own life-size animatronic attraction. By Dodai Stewart Visuals by Lanna Apisukh The stegosaurus, over 29 feet long ...

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 ...

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.

Thirty years ago, thousands of fossilized dinosaur eggs were discovered in Yunyang District in central China. Now, for the first time, researchers have directly dated the preserved shells, using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...