New research shows that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can be used to help scientists more precisely date prehistoric nesting ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs came to an abrupt end, but scientists are still piecing together exactly what happened. For decades, the leading theory has been that a massive ...

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco represent the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, dating back around 300,000 ...