New study highlights valuable tool for studying living and extinct animals

Findings of a new study could support a number of fields from animal poaching to paleoecology. Researchers report on a mathematical analytical tool that was designed to predict a common elemental signal in surface water -- resulting in significant savings compared with traditional field surveys. It is also, they say, effective at predicting values for a wide range of materials, and is in fact most successful when applied to the bones and teeth of mammals.

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