Our prehistoric ancestors just may have eaten pancakes. Analyses of starch grains on 30,000-year-old grinding tools suggest that Stone Age cooks were making flour out of cattails and ferns—which ...

The origins of pancakes are ancient, with evidence suggesting that some form of pancake existed as far back as prehistoric times. Early versions were likely simple mixtures of flour and water ...

Researchers first discovered the pancake-shaped creatures — a group known as Dickinsonia — in the late 1940s. The species were among the most common residents of the world’s oceans 558 ...