Man walking dog finds human femur bone near National Zoo

A view of a D.C. police car. (Peter Hermann/The Washington Post)

A man walking his dog Thursday morning near the National Zoo found a human femur bone, according to D.C. police.

A police report says the man made the discovery shortly before 9 a.m. in an area along Rock Creek east of Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. The man was between the Calvert Street bridge and the zoo tunnel near Beach Drive.

U.S. Park Police responded to the call because the site is under their jurisdiction. D.C. police homicide detectives took over the investigation when it was determined the bone was human. A member of the medical examiner’s office and a forensic anthropologist also responded to the scene.

Police said a search of the area did not turn up additional bones. The report describes the item as an “adult right femur.”