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

Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.

Large aquatic lizards once populated the Earth’s oceans—and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

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

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that ...

Researchers dated dinosaur eggs directly for the first time, placing them at 85 million years old. The findings link climate cooling to evolutionary pressures that may have doomed some species.

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

Amber with well-preserved fossils found in Ecuador gives insight into a 112-million-year-old Cretaceous ecosystem during the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of ...

Japanese researchers have found that the world's oceans during the Cretaceous period, 70 million to 100 million years ago, were dominated by squid, media reports said Saturday. Researchers from the ...