• Question: Do you discover any human fossils

    Asked by 1179oliver to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Not personally, but we find human fossils quite a bit. In Britain lots of mummy type bodies get found in peat bogs!

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      To become a real fossil you have to be buried in rock, and rocks form really slowly, so you don’t usually see any fossils that are younger than 1 million years old.

      Humans have been around for about 4 million years, but we don’t find their fossils because they didn’t die in places where new rocks are likely to find. So all the remains of humans that we have found are loose bones, or mummies in bogs or in glaciers.

      Ask me again in ten million years and maybe I’ll be able to say yes!

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      I don’t work with fossils.

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