One spring afternoon, when I approached the castle of Sancti Petri by canoe, the seagulls went crazy, swooping down towards my canoe which capsized and left me in the middle of the ocean dominated by a paralyzing panic.

Quadruped and herbivore, it reached 10 meters in height and inhabited the Els Ports region, one of the best records of the Lower Cretaceous in Europe, 122 million years ago.

Traditional basket makers boast of practicing one of the oldest known trades. What they probably don't know is how right they are. 9,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers collected esparto grass and braided it to create small…

Neolithic farmers made espadrilles 6,200 years ago with the same material that hunter-gatherers used for their baskets three millennia before.