A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise. Rather than a dinosaur embryo or sediment, it was filled with sparkling crystals of calcite lining the ...

Dinosaur eggs filled with giant crystals are found in China, revealing new clues about prehistoric development.

Slick mud and winter rain repeatedly stalled the work. Still, paleontologists in southern France pushed forward and uncovered ...

The Qianshan Basin in eastern China has provided paleontologists with an abundance of fossils from the Paleocene Epoch, the 10-million-year-long period that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A major paleontology discovery in southern France has revealed an unusually dense dinosaur nesting ground containing ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...