Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

These animals were known because their imprints were preserved as fossils in ancient shale beds ... looked like multiple stacked rakes and would have been very efficient at bringing anything ...

They are flat pieces of shale with engraving of the sun. The stones are believed to have symbolized fertility ... were put into ditches along with animal bones-belived to be the remains of ritual ...

The prehistoric artifacts are small, flat, shale pieces with finely incised patterns ... with the remains of ritual feasts, represented by animal bones, broken clay vessels and flint objects.

This phenomenon may have been intensified by the transition to less centralized ... Some rare examples of figuration, amber animals and pendants. Top left: Ornamented bear figurine, Resen. Top right: ...

Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised ... and other institutions have linked this climate disaster to the widespread use of symbolic “sun stones ...

the shale formation beneath Pennsylvania that has fueled the fracking boom. “It’s a similar situation to what Rachel Carson was warning about with DDT affecting animals up the food chain ...

Every plant or animal evokes not just sympathy but also reverence and wonder in those who know it. In Earth in the Balance (1992) Al Gore, then a senator, wrote, "We have become so successful at ...

Discovered among the tracks of prehistoric animals ... During the Burgess Shale event, for example, organisms were preserved intact because they were caught in a mudslide. As complex as the past is, ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Milei, who has been president since December 2023, vowed to make Argentina a net energy exporter using the vast shale reserves in ... Imports have already begun to tick up as the Argentine peso ...