The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...
More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along ...
When paleontologists in China cracked open a set of cannonball sized dinosaur eggs, they did not find bones or embryos. Instead, they uncovered glittering mineral structures, crystal chambers that had ...
Scientists in Spain investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors.