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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the research team subjected the fossils to microscopic analysis and CT scanning. Fragments that were formerly believed to be pieces of the humerus and femur were compared with bones from 24 black ...

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