May 4—There is nothing quite like reaching under a laying hen expecting to pull out a fresh egg and instead ending up with something that looks and feels like a tiny water balloon. This is referred to ...

Sometimes, you open up your carton of eggs and you may notice one egg in particular has a few wrinkles or folds in the shell.

In 2018, paleontologist Julia Clarke was visiting a colleague named David Rubilar-Rogers at Chile's National Museum of Natural History. He showed her a mysterious fossil that he'd collected years ...

Some of the soft-shelled eggs that the team analyzed belonged to Protoceratops (right), a plant-eating dinosaur that lived around 75,000 years ago in what is now Mongolia. Whether the chicken or the ...

Eggs from the earliest dinosaurs were more like leathery turtle eggs than rigid bird eggs. Studies of fossilized embryos from two kinds of dinosaurs, one from early in dinosaur history and the other ...

In 2011, a team of scientists in Chile’s National Museum of Natural History discovered a peculiar fossil in Antarctica. Measuring in at 11 by 7 inches, it was referred to by the team as “The Thing,” ...

(CN) — New research released Wednesday suggests that the earliest dinosaur eggs were soft and leathery instead of hard, a conclusion that challenges beliefs that have been widely held for years. Of ...

A new study of dinosaur eggs, as well as a football-size egg from Antarctica, shows how some ancient creatures relied on soft shells rather than... Scientists Find The Biggest Soft-Shelled Egg Ever, ...