For decades, a few hundred miles northeast of Beijing, the Yixian Formation has offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils dating back to the early Cretaceous (about 145 to 66 million ...
Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
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 samples.
With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by the Jurassic Park series. One of the most striking shifts has been ...
In a paleontology “first”, a new method has been developed to directly date dinosaur eggs by using lasers to analyze eggshell fragments. The researchers from the Hubei Institute of Geosciences in ...
YICHUN, China, Sept. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On the sidelines of an international fossil protection forum in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, hundreds of participants eagerly picked up ...
H. qini was discovered in the Wangmen Formation, a geological rock unit. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur measuring at 39 feet long. Huashanosaurus qini, ...
Jiayin, a county-level city in the province, is known as the "hometown of dinosaurs," where China's first dinosaur fossil was unearthed in 1902, and today, these prehistoric giants have become its ...
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