Research into dinosaur eggshells and nesting behaviour has substantially enhanced our understanding of Mesozoic reproductive strategies and palaeoenvironmental conditions. By analysing eggshell ...

Alain Cabot, who owns a dinosaur museum called the Musée Parc des Dinosaures, has found around 100 fossilised dinosaur eggs ...

Scientists recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to understand how these dinosaurs hatched their eggs. Their experiments showed the parent likely couldn’t heat all the eggs directly, meaning sunlight ...

When most people picture dinosaur eggs, they imagine something the size of a beanbag chair, or even bigger. After all, dinosaurs were massive, right? But in reality, their eggs didn’t always match the ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in India is giving scientists new clues about how some dinosaurs reproduced. Researchers have found a 68-million-year-old dinosaur egg that contained another egg inside ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A major paleontology discovery in southern France has revealed an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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