Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of paleontology by developing a technique that uses ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

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

A cutting-edge dating method turns fragile dinosaur eggshells into precision time machines—revealing exactly when these ...

Scientists in Argentina discovered the oldest known long-necked dinosaur, Huayracursor jaguensis, revealing a much earlier ...

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 ...

Aging a these "living fossils" involves complex scientific techniques. In July 1945, the U.S. detonated its first atomic bomb ...

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

For 25 years, one fossil haunted science as the biggest spider ever discovered—until a shocking twist exposed the truth.

An international team of geologists and paleontologists, led by Dr Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University, has developed a ...

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

Eggs laid by dinosaurs have provided paleontologists with a new way to tell prehistoric time. By looking to radioactive ...