The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...
But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries: a puzzle that started with the discovery of a pinkie bone in ...
A study has found that what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Image: Monument to Ushikawa man. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...
A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed ... discoveries in Asia and Africa in recent decades, such as the fossil finds of Homo floresiensis, tiny hominins who lived 100,000 to ...
More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...