1.   Fossil bones were just lying around in the open.

2.   Half a million fossil bones of reptiles and birds have been found in the lava tubes scattered across the landscape.

3.   Owls Owls are probably the major contributors to fossil bone assemblages.

4.   Amazon.com, the Internet book vendor, is now selling fossil bones from dinosaurs and other prehistoric critters in collaboration with the Discovery Channel.

5.   Fossil bones and teeth uncovered in Africa extend knowledge of human origins back to near their beginnings, scientists say.

6.   Fossil bones may inspire paleontologists and a particular type of DNA may satisfy geneticists that they have traced modern Homo sapiens back to a certain time in Africa.

7.   Fossil bones may inspire paleontologists, and a particular type of DNA may satisfy geneticists that they have traced modern Homo sapiens back to a certain time in Africa.

8.   He questioned using average modern humans for comparison to the fossil bones.

9.   He said it might be more useful to compare the fossil bones to those of modern Olympic athletes.

10.   In an ideal world, coprolites would be classified and compared according to their organism of origin, just as fossil bones are.