The team managed to extract genetic material from an ancient leg bone found in 2003 at the site of Tianyuan Cave outside Beijing.

BBC: Fossil human traces line to modern Asians

"The bone that was recovered from the Hadar site has all the hallmarks of the form and function of the modern human foot, " he told the BBC.

BBC: Fossil find puts 'Lucy' story on firm footing

Sponsors participate at every stage of the paleontological process, side-by-side with a site scientist: from the use of hammer and chisel to free fossils from hard rock, to the moulding of bone replicas for display at the on-site laboratory.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

"ICMP's involvement in Katrina victim identification efforts will be limited to the profiling of bone samples for DNA, " the commission said in a statement posted on its Web site.

CNN: War graves experts to help with Katrina IDs

Radiocarbon dating, radiological evidence, DNA and bone analysis and archaeological result confirmed the remains found under the parking lot, the former site of Grey Friars church, were those of Richard III, researchers at University of Leicester told reporters Monday.

CNN: Back from the grave, King Richard III gets rehab

Helen Michie's Whale Skull Bone, artwork in the shape of the bones of a minke whale, is planned for a site above the beach at Dunnet Bay.

BBC: Sculptures selected for Dunnet Head and beach