An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

A team at Stellenbosch University has demonstrated that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can carry their own internal clock.

Researchers at Stellenbosch University have found a new technique that uses dinosaur eggshells to more accurately determine ...

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized ...

Research on fossils reveals that ankylosaurs’ iconic tail weapons evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed. The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than scientists ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells.