The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds. Researchers in Java, Indonesia, ...

As products of nature, shells have developed a bond with people since the days of yore. The connections can be traced to the period of cave people whose images show them wearing shells. During the Qin ...

PARIS, France — Anthropologists on Wednesday said they had found the earliest engraving in human history on a fossilized mollusk shell some 500,000 years old, unearthed in colonial-era Indonesia. The ...

Ancient engraving Early humans from Java used shells for tools and engraving long before Homo sapiens did, new research suggests. The findings, published today in the journal Nature suggest the ...

Detail of the zigzag engraving on the fossil Pseudodon shell. Scientists have discovered enigmatic markings on an ancient shell that's been sitting in a museum for more a century — and they believe ...

Artists turn ordinary shells into coveted artworks featuring various elements, such as birds, flowers and rabbits. [Photo provided to China Daily] As some parts of shells are fragile and hard to be ...