Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...

When looking at calcite under a microscope, a scientist would immediately recognize the crystalline form of calcium carbonate by its rhombohedral appearance. That is, calcite is shaped like a ...

Florida is Not Known for Crystals... THIS is Why it Should Be! Finding Calcite in Fossil Clams! In today's video, PaleoCris and I went to meet up with our buddy Derek to do some rockhounding here in ...

Crystal-filled dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs have been discovered in China by paleontologists. The two fossilized eggs are from a new species of dinosaur, which the scientists figured out ...

Two almost perfectly round dinosaur eggs from eastern China have turned out to be hollow shells packed with glittering crystals instead of bones. The fossils, uncovered in the Qianshan Basin of Anhui ...

Two cannonball-size dinosaur eggs filled with crystals have been discovered by paleontologists in China. The fossilized, spherical eggs belong to a previously unknown dinosaur species and were found ...

From one angle, the egg appears to be nothing more than a smooth, rounded stone. (Image: He et al., J. Palaeogeogr., 2022) A rare fossil discovery in eastern China has surprised palaeontologists, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. Researchers now show how this simplification may lead to ...