Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...
Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of paleontology by developing a technique that uses uranium-infused dinosaur eggshells to accurately date ancient fossil sites. This ...
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...
Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...
The oldest undisputed animal fossils are about 574 million years old, but a new study suggests the animal kingdom’s real ...
When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...