Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how ...

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 ...

For decades, a few hundred miles northeast of Beijing, the Yixian Formation has offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils dating back to the early Cretaceous (about 145 to 66 million ...

When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos. Instead, they uncovered glittering mineral structures, crystal chambers that had ...

In northeast China, there's a place that's offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils over the years. The prevailing theory says they were preserved suddenly by volcanic activity. But ...

Jiayin, a county-level city in the province, is known as the "hometown of dinosaurs," where China's first dinosaur fossil was unearthed in 1902, and today, these prehistoric giants have become its ...

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by the Jurassic Park series. One of the most striking shifts has been ...

Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how old the eggs were by measuring accumulated lead and uranium atoms in ...

YICHUN, China, Sept. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On the sidelines of an international fossil protection forum in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, hundreds of participants eagerly picked up ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be. In ...

CHINA — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an "atomic clock" method to date the ...