Archive for November 19th, 2012

Fossil Egg Links Dinosaurs to Modern Birds

Researchers have discovered a series of dinosaur eggs with a unique characteristic: they are oval in shape. The discovery supports the theory that birds and non-avian theropods, dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, could have a common ancestor. Before her death in December 2010, Nieves López Martínez, palaeontologist of the Complutense University of Madrid, was working […]