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

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic Explorer Lindsay Zanno and her team ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine that fierce dinosaurs once emerged from small, fragile eggs. And it may be even harder to imagine that some of those eggs, when fossilized, could have been preserved for tens of ...

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

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

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 ...