Before long-necked dinosaurs like Brontosaurus grew into their giant bodies, they began as baby dinosaurs with some unusual facial features that changed as they aged, according to a new study. Before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newly analyzed dinosaur eggs from China are offering an unusually intimate look at how these animals reproduced, grew, and nested in the final chapters of the Cretaceous. From clutch sites preserved ...

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

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have discovered a previously unknown dinosaur species that lived around 190 million years ago alongside ...

The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

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 ...

For millions of years of existence, dinosaurs' extinction was not as a result of their size, strength, or ferocity, but because the way their eggs were formed was a disadvantage to the species. Today, ...