A member of the now-extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by ...

The oldest known shell to have been engraved by an early human has been uncovered in a Dutch museum collection, where it remained unnoticed since the 1930s. The ancient mollusc, originally discovered ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's a simple zigzag design scratched onto the surface of a freshwater mussel shell on the Indonesian island of Java about half a million years ago. But scientists are calling ...

Zigzag etches of shells found in a chance discovery has heralded a ‘eureka’ moment for scientists A ROUTINE PROJECT to catalogue museum specimens has resulted in a true ‘eureka’ moment for scientists, ...

Long before human communication evolved into incessant tapping on computer keys, people scratched on eggshells. Don’t laugh—researchers say a cache of ostrich eggshells engraved with geometric designs ...