A good forensic anthropologist has to be skilled in a lot of things—including archaeological field techniques, functional anatomy, human paleontology (fossils), and paleopathology ... the big ...

Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer's ...

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Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that ... in the primate fossil record. Fortunately, paleontologists can use tooth morphology to identify species fairly accurately.

He called on fellow fossil hunters to help him recover the bones - thought to be between 650,000 and 800,000 years old - and said future storms could uncover more of the skeleton. "No one has ...

Large coprolite with fish remains: A coprolite fragment densely packed with fish bones, likely produced by the phytosaur Paleorhinus. Fossil faeces of the bone-crushing archosaur Smok, ...