The Otog Dinosaur Trace National Nature Reserve in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the only national nature reserve in China featuring dinosaur traces.

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass ...

Scientists directly dated dinosaur eggshells in China, finding them 85.91 million years old, revolutionizing fossil timelines ...

Ancient dinosaur eggs discovered in China hold key clues to Earth’s past. New dating techniques reveal surprising details ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. After an asteroid ...

The dinosaurs existed on our planet for roughly one hundred and sixty five million years, and for the majority of that time, they were the dominant life form on Earth. This gave them an awful lot of ...

Scientists in China have begun digging a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth, the deepest ever attempted in the country. Digging down through 10 layers of rock, the team hopes to reach ...

Germany's waters once saw a recently discovered new reptile species known as the Enalioetes schroederi, best characterized as a crocodile which has dolphin-like qualities which lived around 135 ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...