His idea sounds simple enough: Look hard at
the bones of modern animals to study the tiny marks that soft tissues make on bones, and see if such subtle marks can be found on dinosaur fossils as well.
Not exact matches
Gelatin - rich foods, from
bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part
of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part
of the
animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most
modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits
of the
animal.
One
of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in
modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director
of the Geology and Paleontology Department
of the National Museum and Professor
of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits
of animal bones, and a single human molar.
In one
of the most remarkable fossil finds
of the century, Andrei Sher and his colleagues at the Severtsov Institute
of Evolutionary
Animal Morphology and Ecology in Moscow have discovered teeth and
bones of «
modern» mammoths (see this week's Nature).
In their first paper, published in the Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses
of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form
of collagen abundant in
modern animal bones.
The hypothesis on dietary differences between
modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study
of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types
of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part
of this accumulation.
Gelatin - rich foods, from
bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part
of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part
of the
animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most
modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits
of the
animal.