It’s a common misconception – led by our familiarity with chicken’s eggs – that birds lay eggs in two colors: brown and white. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the Cassowary’s ...

A huge fossil site in central India has revealed 92 dinosaur nests and 256 eggs, making it one of the largest hatcheries ever ...

Dating dinosaur eggs is difficult: available methods are limited and prone to errors because measurement proxies – such as volcanic rocks or crystals – may have changed between egg laying and dating ...

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A pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex has been found, shedding light on the evolution of egg-laying as well as on gender differences in the dinosaur. Researchers discover medullary bone in leg bone of T rex ...

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CHINA — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an "atomic clock" method to date the ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

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A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch eggs. By Jack Tamisiea Under the cover of darkness 67 million years ago, a ...