Dr. Federico Agnolín knelt in the dusty earth near Rio Negro, Argentina, his pulse quickening at the sight of an intact egg ...
When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos. Instead, they uncovered glittering mineral structures, crystal chambers that had ...
View post: Stores Open on New Year’s Day 2026 A research team, led by Bi Zhao of the Hubei Institute of Geosciences, uncovered the fossils at the Qinglongshan site in the Hubei Province. Utilizing an ...
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 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.
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 ...
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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