New fossil egg discoveries show early dinosaurs and marine reptiles laid soft-shell eggs like those of turtles, snakes and lizards and not the hard shells of bird eggs today, according to a new study.

A fossilized dinosaur egg discovered in central India has turned out to be even stranger than it first appeared. Inside the stone shell, researchers identified the remains of a second egg, nested like ...

A fossilized flamingo egg thousands of years old has been discovered in Mexico, the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced. The rare egg was found in a state of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the first fossil egg ever found in Antarctica. This remarkable find, a football-sized specimen, was extracted from 68-million-year-old rocks on ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After spending millions of years tucked away in rocks, fossils can ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - During a fishing trip in southern Alabama, a family of four discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle. A family of four recently discovered ...

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. National Geographic ...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...