化石寻找者们挖掘出了一头被认为有50万年之久的大象遗骨。
Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
很快，埃弗特一家找到了他们父亲的遗骨。
数百万年地幔沉积物堆积在（鲸）的遗骨上。
Over thousands of millennia a mantle of sediment built up over its bones.
七个月以前，科学家将这块遗骨化石命名为女子X。
现在科学家将把遗骨的DNA与埋在附近的丽莎的两位后裔对比。
Now scientists will compare the DNA in the bones with the remains of the model's two children who were buried nearby.
他们使用刷子、小铲子、甚至烤肉签子，把每块遗骨都留在土基上。
They used brushes, trowels, even satay sticks, leaving each bone perched on a pedestal of earth.
遇难者的遗骨应该得到恰当的保存，而通过展览可以保存很长的时间。
The bodies should be preserved properly so that they can be displayed in this way for a long time.
“不是每天都能看到鲸腿，”他说着，无比虔诚地用双手捧起了遗骨。
"It isn't every day that you see a whale's leg," he said, lifting the bone reverently in both hands.
不过在2月21日，为寻找人类遗骨，两台挖掘机开始铲起并筛掉泥土。
But on February 21st two diggers began scooping up and gently winnowing the ground in search of human remains.
他联系了蒙大拿州安葬保护委员会，该委员会保护全国原住民的遗骨。
He contacted the Montana Burial Preservation Board, which protects Native American remains in the state.
这是我给父亲的一个承诺，在他生前我答应过他，一定要找到祖父的遗骨。
I recovered my grandfather's remains. It was something that, before he died, I had promised my own father I would do.
到处都是收集到一起的石块、吃剩下的骨头和一些随意埋葬的普通人类遗骨。
There were many collected rocks, leftover bones, and some casually interred skeletons of normal-looking humans.
很多遗骨似乎已经被河流移动了一段距离，尽管还有一些可能保留在原来的位置。
Many of the bones appear to have been transported some distance by the river, although some finds appear to be in their original position.
然而当他们回到哥本哈根并对遗骨进行研究时，却失望地发现只有动物的DNA。
But when they returned to Copenhagen and studied the bones, they were disappointed to find only animal DNA.
阿尔迪的发现(上图)，让距今320万年的露西化石不再是已知最早的人类遗骨。
With the discovery of Ardi (above), 3.2-million-year-old fossil Lucy is no longer the oldest hominid skeleton known.
此后几天里，团队成员仔细地将泥土清理干净，露出了随时会碎裂的极其脆弱的遗骨。
Over the following days, the team carefully cleared the dirt away, revealing bones so fragile they were ready to crumble apart.
最小的受害者是两名14岁的男孩，他俩的遗体与这个坟地内数千具遗骨安放在一起。
The youngest victims were two boys, aged 14, who were laid to rest alongside thousands of bodies already in the graveyard.
这些智人遗骨化石是于1967年在埃塞俄比亚的奥莫河（omo）附近被发掘出来的。
The fossils were found in 1967 near the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia.
海军调查团队把遗骨带回悉尼，在那里用X-光进一步寻找线索时，发现其颅骨已经断裂。
The naval team brought the remains back to Sydney, where they were X-rayed for further clues.
记者Khatchig Mouradian说：“现在驴子在我们的先人的遗骨上大便。
在这片历史的废墟上珍藏着一位伟大的哲学家的遗骨，这正是那么多游客来此瞻仰的原因。
This historical ruin is the place where a great philosopher's ash is enshrined. That's why so many tourists came to warship it.
在的黎波里东部米提嘎医院外，身穿白色罩衫和面具的一些男子正在把17人的遗骨装上卡车。
Outside the Mitiga Hospital in eastern Tripoli, a group of men in white smocks and masks are loading the remains of 17 men onto a truck.
她把卡西的遗骨撒在同一个山上，她的两个好朋友- - -汉克和卡西- - -再次相逢。
She had scattered Cassie's remains on the same mountain where Hank's were scattered. Now her two best friends were together again.
大多数古生物学家都是从地下挖掘史前遗骨，邢立达却在缅甸的琥珀市场上寻找着化石的踪迹。
While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar.
有一些骨头碎了——可能是因为棺材腐烂泥土坍塌造成的——科学家们设法取出了大部分完整的遗骨。
Some were broken – probably from earth collapsing when the coffin decomposed – but the scientists managed to remove most intact.
有一些骨头碎了——可能是因为棺材腐烂泥土坍塌造成的——科学家们设法取出了大部分完整的遗骨。
Some were broken – probably from earth collapsing when the coffin decomposed – but the scientists managed to remove most intact.
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