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

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.

Fossilized Newborn Insects Preserved in Amber Provide First Fossil Evidence of Egg Bursters Researchers often have speculations about certain practices that ancient species followed. No matter how ...

Researchers have been digging at the site for more than half a century. It was also the site of the first fossilized egg find from the Cenomanian age. Because of work conducted at places like the ...

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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 ...