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Looking at diatom species in bone marrow can thereby reveal if the person ingested salt water. However, this method had never been used to examine ancient bones. Algae, sponge spines and parasitic ...

By modifying a modern forensic technique, researchers were able to determine that skeletal remains in Chile belonged to a likely fisherman who drowned in the Pacific thousands of years ago.