A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of radioactive uranium atoms. Since ...

Archaeologists in China have dated dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing the age of the ancient fossils, according to a ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

The first dinosaur eggshell ever found from the Lance Formation in Niobrara County has paleontologists excited. They believe ...

Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.

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.

A perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo has been found in China: little Yingliang reveals the posture of birds before birth.

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 ...

Researchers dated dinosaur eggs directly for the first time, placing them at 85 million years old. The findings link climate cooling to evolutionary pressures that may have doomed some species.

Researchers have found fossil evidence of varied creatures wooing and mating, as they continue to search for the telltale ...