Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock ...

Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

Archaeologists in China have dated dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing the age of the ancient fossils, according to a ...

A fossil unearthed in Argentina of a newly identified species of meat-eating dinosaur is providing insight into a poorly ...

Billions of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America during their fascinating reign as top predators, according to a team of researchers that went about the daunting task of making the calculation.

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. After an asteroid ...

The dinosaurs existed on our planet for roughly one hundred and sixty five million years, and for the majority of that time, they were the dominant life form on Earth. This gave them an awful lot of ...

Scientists in China have begun digging a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth, the deepest ever attempted in the country. Digging down through 10 layers of rock, the team hopes to reach ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Germany's waters once saw a recently discovered new reptile species known as the Enalioetes schroederi, best characterized as a crocodile which has dolphin-like qualities which lived around 135 ...