Dinosaur egg

3 weeks ago - When the first scientifically ... that dinosaurs had laid eggs because they were reptiles. In 1859, the first scientifically documented dinosaur egg fossils were discovered in France by Jean-Jacques Pouech, although they were mistaken for giant bird eggs (birds were not ...

One remarkable find was in Montana, where fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, including eggs, nests, hatchlings, juveniles, and adults were found together in one death assemblage, or mass grave. The eggshells in the nests were badly broken, arousing speculation that the hatchlings might have crushed the eggs while moving around the nests.

A mineral specimen that's been in the Natural History Museum collection for 175 years has turned out to also be a dinosaur egg. It may hold clues as to how the biggest dinosaurs ever to exist would have nested.

November 14, 2025 - Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin.

The Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou Basin of Jiangxi Province, South China is among one of the richest egg fossil sites in the world and yields abundant exquisite egg clutches and embryonic eggs, especially in oviraptorosaurs.

The scientists assumed the nest belonged to a Protoceratops and the Oviraptor had been fossilised, caught in the act of stealing the eggs. Because of this they gave Oviraptor its name, meaning "egg-thief". However, later another nest was found, this time with a perfectly preserved oviraptor embryo.

Some 86 million years ago, a dinosaur of some kind lumbered into a well-used nesting site in what is now Hubei province in China to lay her eggs. Some of her offspring would not end up hatching; the nest was buried somehow, which led to the ...

The fossilized oviraptorosaur egg with embryo 'Baby Yingliang' is pictured during a press conference on December 22, 2021 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province... Exquisitely Preserved Oviraptorosaur Dinosaur Embryo Found In Fossilized Egg

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September 11, 2025 - They are the first reliably dated fossils from the Qinglongshan site. ... Traditionally, dating dinosaur eggs involves indirect methods, such as dating volcanic rock, ash layers, or minerals around eggs.

April 4, 2023 - Fossilized egg shells found in Alberta from a bird-like dinosaur called the troodon offer new evidence about how dinosaurs lived, bred and evolved into birds, a new study reports.

1 day ago - A museum report for the public explained that these early dinosaur eggs probably resembled turtle eggs, with leathery coverings that could be buried in soil or sand. The Antarctic egg slots into this emerging picture, extending the reach of ...

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March 15, 2019 - At 195 million years old, they are the earliest known eggs in the fossil record, and they were all laid by stem sauropods – long-necked herbivores that ranged in size from four to eight metres in length and were the most common and widely ...

October 1, 2025 - The first scientifically recognized dinosaur egg fossils were discovered serendipitously in 1923 by an American Museum of Natural History crew while looking for evidence of early humans in Mongolia.

A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilised dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behaviour of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.

September 11, 2025 - Scientists in China have calculated the direct age of a fossilized dinosaur egg1 for the first time.

Rocks at Devil's Coulee dinosaur nest site. ... Devil's Coulee is unique in Canada in that it preserves thousands of fossilized eggshell fragments from the Late Cretaceous period (circa 100–65 million years ago).