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 ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking ...

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an ...

Thirty years ago, thousands of fossilized dinosaur eggs were discovered in Yunyang District in central China. Now, for the first time, researchers have directly dated the preserved shells, using a ...

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 ...

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