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 ...

New research shows that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can be used to help scientists more precisely date prehistoric nesting ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco represent the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, dating back around 300,000 years. This episode explores how these finds reshaped ideas about human ...