He turned to find a beautiful woman standing beside the ostrich egg, which was cracked wide open. “Malcolm, you are a kind and generous man, and I will make you happy for the rest of your life.

Carved ostrich eggs can be bought at South African souvenir shops but a set of fragments reveals that people were carving these eggs 60,000 years ago. The fragments are clear evidence for a ...

It’s an emu egg, not nearly as big or exciting as an ostrich egg. At $30 they’re not cheap, but ostrich eggs make great conversation starters, if you can get beyond the uneasy impression that ...

Because ostrich eggshells are ubiquitous in African middens -- the eggs are a rich source of protein, equivalent to about 20 chicken eggs -- they have been an attractive target for geochronologists.

Researchers have intricately linked the development of ostrich eggs used as jewellery to reveal some 10,000 years of human cultural interaction across Africa in pre-history times. Ostrich eggshell ...

Ostrich eggshells are found in archaeological dig sites throughout Africa. Early humans used the large eggs as water bottles and, for tens of thousands of years, ancient humans took the remains ...

A team of scientists wanted to know the origins of these eggs—and just how they made it from Africa into the hands of the Iron and Bronze Age elite. Mediterranean archaeologist Tamar Hodos, an author ...

Forget the dim-witted stereotype. These big birds are shrewd survivors in a world of predators. Standing tall at the southern tip of Africa, a male ostrich surveys the shore near the Cape of Good ...

Half a century ago the ostrich of Southern Africa was in danger of extinction; now, however, owing to domestication, its numbers have enormously increased. In 1913 there were 776,268 ostriches ...