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.

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the Qinglongshan site in China ...

A team of researchers in China has successfully dated dinosaur eggs unearthed at the Qinglongshan site in the Yunyang Basin, central China, revealing they were deposited nearly 85 million years ago.

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an ...