As the emu fad was passing in 1994, Chuck DeCourley and his wife, Sue, bought a pair of emus. He was looking for a marketable use for the eggs, perhaps something artistic, but simply painting the ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg’s contents are emptied ...

Picture this: you’re holding a chicken egg, not to whip up an omelette, but to carve Sun Wukong’s mischievous monkey face on to its paper-thin, brittle shell. Sounds impossible, right? Well, in a ...