The Qianshan Basin in eastern China has provided paleontologists with an abundance of fossils from the Paleocene Epoch, the 10-million-year-long period that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs.
It was in egg-cellent condition. Argentine paleontologists found a real diamond in the rough after happening across a perfectly preserved 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation. “It was ...
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In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...