When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos.

Debates about what dinosaurs look like have been raging for decades, and the appearance of their eggs is equally contested. Although the fossil record can provide paleontologists with clear clues ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Dr. Scott explains that dinosaurs laid their eggs in circular nests like birds. In this Dinosaur Train clip, Dr. Scott the paleontologist explains that dinosaurs laid their eggs in circular nests like ...

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.

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 ...