A fossilized ancient egg discovered in Antarctica nearly a decade ago has finally been identified, shedding new light on ...

A 29-millimeter-long dinosaur egg fossil discovered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, has been identified as the smallest ...

A team of biological, Earth and environmental scientists from North Carolina State University, Stellenbosch University and ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

The discoveries, made within the Mussentuchit Member of the formation, revealed that at least six different fossil egg species, known as ootaxa, existed there around 100 million years ago.

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Another two eggshell types came from ornithopod dinosaurs with beak-like mouths for grazing. No one expected to find so many ...

The diversity of fossil eggs – known by the fun word "oodiversity" – had been limited to just one unstable taxon, Macroelongatoolithus carlylei. Now, a team of scientists has shaken up the ...

Scientists working at a site on the mainland found 215 rare fossil eggs of pterosaurs, a type of flying reptile, that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The fossilised eggs were discovered at a ...