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 ...

Movies featuring dinosaurs, like 'Jurassic Park,' often show scenes of hard dinosaur eggs cracking open as baby dinosaurs emerge. While dinosaur eggs in films are all depicted with hard shells, new ...

When most people picture dinosaur eggs, they imagine something the size of a beanbag chair, or even bigger. After all, dinosaurs were massive, right? But in reality, their eggs didn’t always match the ...

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 pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex has been found, shedding light on the evolution of egg-laying as well as on gender differences in the dinosaur. Researchers discover medullary bone in leg bone of T rex ...

It’s a common misconception – led by our familiarity with chicken’s eggs – that birds lay eggs in two colors: brown and white. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the Cassowary’s ...

(A) A completely unhatched egg. (B) An almost fully intact circular outline of an egg. (C) A compressed egg showing a hatching window. (D) An egg showing a curved outline. (E) A deformed egg showing ...

Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery — a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs belonging to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs. A study of the ...

The Tyrannosaurus at Spain’s Jurassic Museum of Asturias offer a speculative take on how dinosaurs mated. Mario modesto via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

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A team of paleontologists in India have given 256 fossilized dinosaur eggs a close look, in hopes of better understanding how some of the largest known dinosaurs bred and hatched. The eggs were found ...