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, ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have long thought that all dinosaurs laid hard-shelled eggs, much like crocodiles and birds (their descendants) do. But a new analysis of fossil eggs discovered in the Gobi Desert ...

A spiny softshell turtle’s head emerges from a shallow pool of water. Spiny softshell turtles lay eggs in Missouri this week on sand- and gravel bars along streams and ponds. Take a canoe or kayak out ...

Instead of cracking open like a chicken's egg, some dinosaurs may have emerged from soft-shelled eggs, like turtles or snakes. Steph Panecasio was an Editor based in Sydney, Australia. She knows a lot ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs--a finding that contradicts established thought. The study, led by the American Museum of Natural History and Yale University and ...

A fossilized dinosaur egg discovered in central India has turned out to be even stranger than it first appeared. Inside the ...

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 ...

She's around 80 years old. He's 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world's most endangered turtles successfully mated. But the attempt to breed the species' last known female with the last ...

New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs -- a finding that contradicts established thought. The study analyzed the eggs of two vastly different non-avian dinosaurs and ...