A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

Paleontologists Susannah Maidment and Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar share details about some of the cool dinosaurs discovered last ...

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 ...

While modern mammals hover over their offspring until adulthood, dinosaur parents showed less involvement — caring for their young a few months or a year before leaving them to roam alone, research ...

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 ...

On Monday, France returned an “extremely rare” dinosaur skeleton and 30 additional paleontological finds to Mongolia. A European trafficking network looted the skeleton from the Gobi desert and ...

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Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

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 ...