Sentences with phrase «more ancient bones»

Nucleic acids and proteins trapped in ancient mummies and still more ancient bones can serve as time capsules of history.

Not exact matches

If we're finding dinosaur bones and ancient human bones, there is more support for this research than there is against it.

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They scrambled to outdo one another by publishing DNA sequences that were ever more ancient, with one fantastically claiming to have sequenced 80 - million - year - old DNA from dinosaur bones.

Along with more than 100 other fossils representing nearly 40 other Ardipithecus individuals, Ardi was discovered in the scorched landscape of Ethiopia's Afar Rift, a place where torrential rains regularly wash up traces of ancient stone and bone from different eras.

Because ancient DNA is almost always badly damaged, its signal is easily swamped by even a speck of more modern contaminants — anything from bacteria that invaded the bone after death to the roast beef sandwich residue on a researcher's hands.

To find out more about the lives and deaths of these ancient people, Schultz has spent years teasing out the secrets of their bones, using techniques like those employed at crime scenes.

Although ancient DNA analysis confirmed the bones were Neanderthal, a small segment of maternally inherited DNA is more closely related to Denisovans.

Ancient bones from many animals lying in a big jumble are more easily put in context than you might think.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

Nearly 400 million years old, they are 18 million years more ancient than the oldest known tetrapod bones.

That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.

His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.

«Tracks sometimes tell more about ancient creatures than their bones, particularly when it comes to their behavior,» he said.

Behrensmeyer now plans to examine ancient bone assemblages in a study of human remains that are more than a million years old.

But it will take more examples of ancient bone tumors to draw broader conclusions, the researchers say.

* Correction, 4 April, 3:50 p.m.: This item has been updated to more clearly acknowledge a previous, independent analysis of ancient totoaba ear bones.

And based on the fact that these ancient human bones were found in Morocco — nowhere near the «Garden of Eden» in East Africa where we've long assumed modern humans evolved, and from which they dispersed — it also means that our origins are probably much more complicated than we assumed, geographically speaking.

The first results suggested that the skull and jaw material, unlike the fossil animal bones from the site, were not very ancient, which made it seem even more puzzling.

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Take, for example, a humorous approach to educating people about the benefits of ancient bone broth posted by the Food Renegade called, «America Needs More Brothels»!