Shell artist Jin A'shan works on his peacock shell painting at his studio in Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sitting in front of a ...

Jin shows how to fashion pieces of seashells into different shapes with a cutting wheel at his studio. [Photo by Deng Zhangyu/China Daily] Gem of an idea "I made innovations to shell-carving ...

On a prehistoric white shell fossil from the island of Java, tiny zig-zag shaped scratches may etch out the beginning of art history, and rewrite our human history. A study published in Nature this ...