In a first, fossil bird found with unlaid egg “I couldn’t even sleep at night,” the lead paleontologist says of her reaction to the discovery. By Michael Greshko. March 20, 2019 ...

Scientists have discovered the first fossil bird ever found with an egg preserved inside its body, a new study reports. The 110-million-year-old bird is a new species called Avimaia schweitzerae ...

A stunning new discovery is shedding light on the first-ever bird fossil found with an egg preserved inside of it. "The egg shell consists of two layers instead of one as in normal healthy bird ...

Inside some 66-million-year-old oviraptor egg fossils, her team found small concentrations of both pigments that color modern bird eggs. That was intriguing. Still, it was just one dinosaur.

An elephant bird egg (Aepyornis maximus) reconstructed from fragments in a Toliara (south-west Madagascar) market. In life, some species of elephant bird laid eggs up to 10kg in weight – the volume of ...

Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, ... The first oviraptor fossil—from a family of dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks—was discovered in Mongolia in the 1920s, ...

The colors of modern bird eggs derive from just two pigments: biliverdin and protoporphyrin IX. The researchers detected both pigments in their fossil eggshell samples.

Researchers said the fossil flamingo egg found at Santa Lucía likely dates back to between 12,000 and 8,000 years ago. The egg in question measures under 4 inches in length and has a maximum ...

Fossilized egg shells found in Alberta from a bird-like dinosaur called the troodon offer new evidence about how dinosaurs lived, bred and evolved into birds, a new study reports.

Paleontologists in India have made a rare discovery — a dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs that belonged to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs.

Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, ... The first oviraptor fossil—from a family of dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks—was discovered in Mongolia in the 1920s, ...