Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of paleontology by developing a technique that uses uranium-infused dinosaur eggshells to accurately date ancient fossil sites. This ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and 10 million years ago using a new Argon-Argon ...