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

Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not ...

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. Not only that, the items are not ...

Scientists uncovered evidence of the oldest hominin presence in Europe in modern-day Romania nearly two million years ago.

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 ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

A recent scientific paper published in the Nature Communications journal revealed evidence of “hominin activity” dating back ...

The human remains, which may be around 8,000 years old, were found in China next to a pit containing numerous turtle shell rattles.

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