reproduction
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Sparkly Rock in Museum Turns Out to Be 60-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg
140 years ago, an agate specimen from India was registered in the Mineralogy Collection at London’s Natural History Museum. Now, a team of researchers say the suspiciously spherical agate formed inside a 60-million-year-old dinosaur egg.
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Nearly 100 Titanosaur Nests, Complete With Fossilised Eggs, Found in India
A team of paleontologists in India have given 256 fossilized dinosaur eggs a close look, in hopes of better understanding how some of the largest known dinosaurs bred and hatched.
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Male Mice Produce Rat Sperm in Novel Chimera Experiment
Cue the Jurassic Park theme song: Scientists in Switzerland appear to have pulled off a remarkable feat, creating sterile and seemingly healthy mice that can produce the sperm cells of a rat. These rodent chimeras weren’t able to make viable rat offspring, but the work could lead to a new method of preserving species on…
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COVID-19 Vaccines Don’t Affect Chances of Getting Pregnant Through IVF, Fertility Clinic Study Finds
New research continues to affirm the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines for people planning or expecting to have children. The study found no evidence that vaccination affected the outcomes of patients getting in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), either in their chances of becoming pregnant or experiencing complications like an early miscarriage.