Scientists find 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell carvings follow precise geometric rules, revealing early humans carefully planned designs.

As the emu fad was passing in 1994, Chuck DeCourley and his wife, Sue, bought a pair of emus. He was looking for a marketable use for the eggs, perhaps something artistic, but simply painting the ...

Panorea Margaritis fondly remembers the countless hours her dad Stavros would spend carving layers from the shell of an emu egg. Each carved egg could take up to 600,000 scratches using a cut-throat ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg’s contents are emptied ...

For many artists, including North Charleston resident Alan Rabon, creativity is a delicate thing. Inspiration can be fickle, often a chicken and egg conundrum. What comes first: the artistic vision, ...

Picture this: you’re holding a chicken egg, not to whip up an omelette, but to carve Sun Wukong’s mischievous monkey face on to its paper-thin, brittle shell. Sounds impossible, right? Well, in a ...