An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

Unlike the site in Utah, the Mongolian site has no datable volcanic deposits. As a result, the eggshell tests there yielded ...

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized ...

A team at Stellenbosch University has demonstrated that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can carry their own internal clock.

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...

For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells.