Historical robber 'Schinderhannes' clearly identified: Skeletons were mixed up about 220 years ago
The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first ...
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Neanderthal Hybrid Child Was Hiding a Stunning Secret—Until Now
A cutting-edge radiocarbon technique has provided the most precise date yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton with both Neanderthal and modern human traits. Found in Portugal’s Lapedo ...
Famed German robber’s skeleton identified after 220-year-long mix-up
Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...
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What does your skeleton do?
Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move. The human skeleton is made of bones which grow as we grow. Your bones come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the ...
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A BIG BONE.; Portion of the Skeleton of a Mastodon Exhumed in Illinois--Dimensions of the Reconstructed Animal.
As has been noticed in our news columns, there was found, near Aurora, in this State, not long since, a gigantic bone, supposed to belong to the skeleton of some of the extinct animals.
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Learning From Skeletons
The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.