At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The discovery of several exceptionally preserved reproduction-related dinosaur specimens over the last three decades has improved our knowledge of dinosaur reproductive biology. Nevertheless, due to ...
Argentine paleontologists have uncovered a nearly intact 70-million-year-old fossilized egg in Patagonia that may represent ...
Fossilized dinosaur eggs are amongst the rarest finds at dig sites, say experts. Yet, they do exist, and these research treasures can provide important glimpses into the evolutionary process of ...
The discovery of several exceptionally preserved reproduction-related dinosaur specimens over the last three decades has improved our knowledge of dinosaur reproductive biology. Nevertheless, due to ...
A mineral collected 140 years ago turned out to have surprise inside of it from one of the largest dinosaurs to ever exist. In 1883, an agate specimen measuring 15 centimeters from central India was ...