Word: femur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snapping a photograph of a human femur at the second grave, a Bosnian Serb soldier arrested him and charged him with being...
...check-up this November found inoperable tumors in the femur of his good leg, in his ribs, in his lungs and around his heart...
...dried blood, strands of hair, chips of bone. In the journal Nature last week, for example, a team of British researchers recounted how they successfully identified a teenage murder victim from skeletal remains eight years old. First they extracted DNA from bone cells in the dead girl's femur. Then they obtained DNA from blood samples donated by the couple believed to be her parents. Using a PCR machine as their microscope, they went on to magnify and examine the unique genetic markers the dead girl shared with her parents. The evidence helped to convict two men of the crime...
...beer-drinking, fossil- hunting pal named Bob Makela. They wound up one Sunday morning helping the owner of a rock shop in Bynum identify some of her fossils. Among them was a coffee can full of bones from a recent dig, including a fragment of a thumb- size femur. "You're not going to believe this," Horner remarked to Makela when he picked...
...femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were...