Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed ...

A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...

Looking for a budget-friendly way to light your next bonfire? A Reddit user shared a step-by-step guide on how to turn crayons into fire starters at little to no cost — and the hack received mixed ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

Are your kids already bringing broken school supplies home at the bottom of their backpacks? Or maybe your littlest kids are getting bored at home with their older siblings away at school all day?

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — A Cornelius woman is bringing new life to arts and crafts time on Earth Day. Mackenzie Smart has found a way to recycle old, broken crayons into new ones and even found a ...

LEOMINSTER — Sixteen-year-old Nigel O’Neill was inspired to give back by collecting used, unwanted, and broken crayons for The Crayon Initiative, which melts them down, remakes them and distributes ...

A Danville man who was a 2016 Jefferson Award winner says his nonprofit has kept 55 million crayons from ending up in landfills. The magic of making crayons still brings Bryan Ware's life a splash of ...

It's believed that children given crayons as part of a museum activity pack decided to add their own personal touches to a statue of historic significance, scribbling all over it. Dismaying photos ...

"She said, 'Mommy why don't they show brown people in movies and books?'" A 7-year-old girl is determined to get multicultural crayons and books featuring diverse characters into California classrooms ...