Antelope bone fossil (IMAGE)

New York University

Antelope bone fossil

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Antelope bone fragment in rock from the 3-million-year-old early human site, Makapansgaat (South Africa). Its bone marrow cavity is filled with a white carbonate-rich precipitate. Palaeometabolomics can describe the well-being of that animal and provide ultrafine-scale reconstructions of its paleoecology. 

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Timothy Bromage and Bin Hu, NYU College of Dentistry

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