The North African ostrich is critically endangered. Once widespread in the Saharan region, its population has declined due to habitat loss and overhunting ...

Ornament production really took off about 50,000 years ago, when we see the earliest standardised jewelry in the form of small disc beads made from ostrich eggshells. In Africa, ostrich eggshell ...

A recent study by archaeologist Prof. Peter Mitchell and his colleagues published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa examines how ostrich eggshell (OES) beads moved across southeast ...

From ostriches, rheas, cassowaries to emus, they feature on the list of biggest and heaviest birds in the world.

People across Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa traded ostrich eggs up to 5,000 years ago, in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Cheese discovered in 3,200-year-old tomb Proteins from 'deep time ...