Listen: I’m an unconventional gal, but I’m guessing that by the end of this article you’ll at least consider keeping a bag of bones around, too. When I buy a whole or roaste ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

A woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died about 19,000 years ago and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. Archaeologists began exploring the cave in 1996, uncovering evidence of prehistoric ...

The team describes 27 bone tools. In a layer dated to 1.5 million years ago, the researchers uncovered a hippopotamus carcass ...

Image courtesy of Craig Smith, University of Hawaii via Wikimedia Commons. Large scavengers may reduce the carcass to a pile of bones, but there is still plenty of food left for some much smaller ...

The primate carcass is buried by geologic processes ... and tooth pits on the bones of prey) or during its death - that become rock. Many small soft-bodied creatures are preserved this way ...

The carcass they’d been feeding on, a muskox many times larger than me, lay nearby with its rib cage cracked open, the bones splayed like a fan against the sky. The wolves watched me silently ...

By the time Daniel reached this whale carcass, more than 100 sharks were picking the last pieces of flesh from its bones. He says this behaviour, which is rarely seen, is a reminder that sharks are ...

According to the museum, it was the first time in 31 years for a whale carcass longer than 10 meters to be found in Osaka Bay since the 1990 discovery of a 19-meter-long finback.