"The first indication of 'Dippy' was a toe bone of a hind foot," wrote fossil collector Arthur Coggeshall decades later.
The flesh on this roasted jaw bone of a small yellowtail was sparse but delicious.
As a result, even the bone of a dead bird is proportionally lighter than the equivalent of a mammal or lizard, there's simply not much of it there.
Earlier in June, researchers discovered a tumor of the rib bone of a Neanderthal believed to be a hundred and twenty thousand years old.
A toe bone of a female Neanderthal who died 50,000 years ago in the Siberian Altai mountains exposes ancient humans' inclination to mate with other species.
Found in Hohle Fels in southern Germany, it is made from the hollow wing bone of a griffon vulture and is one of the world's oldest musical instrument.
For a moment, he seemed to be the old Clifford, insouciant, embarrassing, showing off that he could still throw me the bone of a story.
Should you not be in possession of one, an apple scoop, she wrote, is the shank bone of a sheep, cut at a slant and filed smooth.
"So I drove over, had a look at it, and sure enough, it did seem like a leg bone of a large, extinct elephant.
There, he uncovered the skullcap and thigh bone of a creature that appeared to be something between ape and modern man.
Inside the well the archeologists found the tooth of a pig and the bone of a rat, animals introduced by Europeans.
