Fifteen years ago, Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, discovered a clutch of dinosaur ...

Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math. But really though: A study from last year found that oviraptors, a dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, laid blue-green eggs, ...

A 'perfectly preserved' dino egg has been found in Argentina and experts are hoping it will unlock secrets about how the ...

A new study suggests the eggs of early dinosaurs were soft-shelled, going against popular belief. The study, published in Nature, notes that the first dinosaur eggs were soft-shelled as opposed to ...

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 ...

If you come across a bird nest there’s usually a pretty good way of telling what kind of feathered friend was responsible for it, even if the bird itself isn’t around. The color, size, and pattern of ...

Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to a new ...

Eggs are not a great way to reproduce, unless you want to reproduce with the Bacons. You have to lay them somewhere they won’t get crushed or eaten, some species are compelled to protect them, and ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you come across a bird nest there’s usually a pretty good way of telling what kind of ...