Researchers Stunned After Discovering 20,000-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to a Bear, Mistook It to Be of a Human Initially The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of ‘Ushikawa Man’ were some of Japan's most ...

and the head of a human femur, thought to belong to an individual who lived more than 20,000 years ago. Despite the initial excitement, doubts about the Ushikawa fossils were first raised in the ...

The Ushikawa fossils were initially presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived more than 20,000 years ago. But in the ...

In the mid-1600s, a fossil bone was acquired by Dr Robert Plot, the first keeper of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, who noted that it looked almost exactly like the lower part of a human femur. Plot ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that ... the hominin lineage — which includes modern humans and our fossil relatives — were virtually unknown, and our phylogenetic ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows.

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

Lucy's fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins And Fossils' exhibition for two months ...