Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

A new study of some of California’s most commercially significant aquatic species paints a grim picture for the future of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a reeking, violet-stained factory where crushed sea snails once fueled the elite’s obsession ...

Throughout the Iron Age, wealthy elites and royals swanned around the Mediterranean decked out in purple robes – although ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly ...

Unlike birds and reptiles, monotreme eggs have soft, leathery shells rather than hard ones. The eggs are incubated outside the body but are kept warm in a pouch or nest. A platypus’s genome is a ...

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologists are requesting the public to help them learn more about the distribution of spiny softshell turtles in the state by reporting sightings of ...