Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of paleontology by developing a technique that uses uranium-infused dinosaur eggshells to accurately date ancient fossil sites. This ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

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 ...

Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

Mathieu Duval receives funding from the Spanish State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). He is currently the recipient of a Ramón y Cajal ...