The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

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According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

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NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

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Suwa said Japanese scientists at that time thought a different bone fragment known as "Akashi ... discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means the oldest human fossils found on the ...