Archeologists have learned a lot about our ancestors by rummaging through their garbage piles, which contain evidence of their diet and population levels as the local flora and fauna changed over time ...

When you lay an ostrich egg next to chicken, goose, and duck eggs, it's a bit like looking at a set of Russian matryoshka dolls, those cute little wooden moppets that nest snuggly inside of each other ...

Our relationship with ostrich eggs dates back over 60,000 years in South Africa, where ostrich eggshell fragments have been found in places occupied by humans. The large eggs, equal to about two dozen ...

Precious objects made of ostrich eggshells, elaborately painted walls, furniture inlaid with carved hippopotamus and elephant ivory: Welcome to palace life in ancient Assyria. More aptly, welcome to ...

Bird flu has made buying chicken eggs so unpredictable! Prices are high, and then they’re lower again; grocery-store shelves are bare, but only sometimes! Are there eggs from other birds that you’d ...

Archeologists have found an ancient connection between populations in Africa. Using ostrich eggshells (OES) beads to study ancient social networks, a team from Max Planck Institute for the Science of ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—ANSA Med reports that the shells of eight ostrich eggs have been found at an ancient campsite in southern Israel’s Negev Desert. The eggs are estimated to be 4,500 years old, but ...

Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals for more than 200 million years. Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals ...

2 cooked 1 – 1 1/4 pound lobsters (shrimp can be substituted) to make 1 1/2 cups lobster meat, chopped into 1/4-inch chunks 2 plum tomatoes, seeds removed and cut into 1/4-inch chunks Heat the butter ...

A new study shows that ostrich eggshell beads were more than just decorative jewelry for the hunter-gatherers in sub-Saharan Africa, as archaeologist Brian Stewart explains. Now, what if I told you ...

Dating early human middens becomes uncertain beyond 50,000 years, when radiocarbon dating ceases to be useful. Uranium-series dating of marine shells and bone is uncertain by some 10% because of the ...