The colorful, speckled eggs of modern birds are an innovation inherited from their nonavian dinosaur ancestors. Researchers found no traces of pigment in eggshells belonging to a long-necked ...

After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells. Wiemann had found ...

A team of researchers has found that “birds inherited their egg color from non-avian dinosaur ancestors that laid eggs in fully or partially open nests,” Yale University announced Wednesday. (Jasmina ...

A new study says the colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. According to researchers at Yale, the American Museum ...

When scientists found these dinosaur eggs, they didn't only uncover a shiny surprise, but they also stumbled upon all-new ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers collected and vaporized samples from fossilized eggshells in China's Qinglongshan fossil reserve. They calculated how ...

A nest of dinosaur eggs dating back around 150 million years has been discovered on a beach cliff in Torres Vedras, Portugal.

Some small dinosaurs sat on their eggs like birds to keep their growing babies warm and protect them as they developed. But what about bigger nesting dinosaurs? How does a beast weighing more than a ...