Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how old the eggs were by measuring accumulated lead and uranium atoms in ...
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 ...
The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. By Asher Elbein Since the 1930s, dinosaurs have rumbled, snarled and roared on film. But the ...
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, ...
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.
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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