A fossilized dinosaur embryo discovered inside a fossilized egg in southern China is reshaping scientific understanding of avian evolution. Preserved for more than 70 million years and left unexamined ...

In paleontology, major discoveries are oftentimes made long after a fossil is physically acquired from the field. The recent finding of the headline-grabbing embryonic Oviraptor named Baby Yingliang ...

Left: The new fossil preserving an adult oviraptorid dinosaur with eggs containing embryos. Right: Artist’s interpretation of a nesting oviraptorid. Image: Fossil: Shundong Bi; Artwork: Zhao Chuang ...

When a tiny embryonic dinosaur that died some 90 million years ago was featured on the front of a National Geographic magazine in 1996, it suddenly became known the world over. It now turns out that ...

The rare fossil embryo of an oviraptor is revealing a surprising connection between the hatching behavior of dinosaurs and modern birds, according to new research. A clutch of unhatched dinosaur eggs, ...

As any child can tell you, dinosaurs, not birds, invented feathers. According to a new scientific report, dinosaurs also invented — or, if you want to get technical, first evolved — eggs of different ...

It’s somehow odd to think that when I was young, it was widely assumed that dinosaurs did not care for their young. There’s even a type of dinosaur called an Oviraptor (egg stealer), named such ...