Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have ...

Archaeologists in China have used cutting-edge technology to date dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing the age of the ancient fossils.

Researchers dated dinosaur eggs directly for the first time, placing them at 85 million years old. The findings link climate ...

Laser method could help to pinpoint the age of many fossils, but some palaeontologists say further research is needed to ...

Eighty-five million years ago, dinosaurs roamed a world filled with dramatic changes. Volcanoes erupted frequently, oceans ...

A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, ...

Scientists directly dated dinosaur eggshells in China, finding them 85.91 million years old, revolutionizing fossil timelines ...

Typically, archaeologists determine the age of a fossilized dinosaur egg using indirect methods, like dating the rock or ash ...

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

Dinosaur eggs laid 85 million years ago have been accurately dated using a new "atomic clock for fossils" method.

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