Among animals, especially reptiles, there are different textures and compositions of eggshells. First, there are hard shells. Solid and mineralised, they are mainly made of calcium carbonate. These ...

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In Argentina’s Río Negro region, scientists discovered a 70-million-year-old, remarkably preserved carnivorous dinosaur egg with avian-like features, suggesting evolutionary links between theropods ...

Deep in Argentina’s Patagonia, scientists uncovered a miracle - a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg. Half pink, half white, it may hold an embryo inside, offering a direct glimpse ...

ARGENTINA: Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered an exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur egg estimated to be around 70 million years old in the Patagonia region. The remarkable find offers ...

Scientists around the world have been left baffled by a recent discovery in Rio Negro, Patagonia, Argentina. Experts have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg, probably dating back nearly 70 ...

It’s hard to imagine that fierce dinosaurs once emerged from small, fragile eggs. And it may be even harder to imagine that some of those eggs, when fossilized, could have been preserved for tens of ...

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 ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...