Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how ...

A team of scientists has accurately dated 85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs by applying a technique more commonly used on cave formations. The research, published in Frontiers in Earth Science, ...

For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests. Now scientists say those fragile shells do something even more surprising ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...