News articles tagged with 'bones'
Tiger parts found in Vietnam taxi
— 19 Jul 2009 09:12 | EnvironmentHanoi's Environmental Police on Thursday found a frozen tiger and more than 11 kg of tiger bones smuggled by taxi from the country's interior to Hanoi - the third seizure of tiger parts... — full story
New discovery suggests mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago
— 18 Jun 2009 09:52 | Geology and palaeontologyResearch which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe publishes today in the... — full story
Darwinius masillae could shed light on primate family tree
— 23 May 2009 15:20 | Geology and palaeontologyA 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported 'missing link' between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but... — full story
Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells
— 15 May 2009 10:48 | TechnologyResearchers at Eindhoven University of Technology for the first time have shown the earliest stages in biomineralisation, the process that leads to the formation of bones, teeth and... — full story
Early agriculture left traces in animal bones
— 24 Mar 2009 17:30 | EnvironmentUnravelling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy... — full story
Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together
— 21 Mar 2009 18:30 | Geology and palaeontologyA herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American palaeontologists that excavated... — full story
The 'Peking Man' may be older than previously thought
— 11 Mar 2009 18:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe bones of Homo erectus pekinensis, commonly known as Peking Man, may be older than thought, according to a new dating analysis published in the most recent issue (12 March 2009)... — full story
Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight
— 18 Feb 2009 12:12 | Geology and palaeontologyNew international research involving the University of Leicester published today sheds new light on how prehistoric reptiles took to the air. In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before... — full story
Medieval walls in Spain contain bits of bone
— 14 Jan 2009 10:10 | ChemistryIn a macabre discovery fit for Indiana Jones, archaeologists in Spain unearthed a 14th century brick oven with a unique role - to bake bones. Scientists report that the animal bones... — full story
MRI shows new types of injuries in young gymnasts
— 1 Dec 2008 15:26 | HealthAdolescent gymnasts are developing a wide variety of arm, wrist and hand injuries that are beyond the scope of previously described gymnastic-related trauma, according to a study presented... — full story