A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly where ...

MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A human jawbone found in the Iowa River is likely from prehistoric times. The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were initially called on Aug. 10 ...

In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along with tools made of stone REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze Scientists on a dig in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as belonging to the elusive ...

Archaeologists working on a dig site in the country of Georgia have discovered a 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone. The Orozmani Paleoanthropology & Archaeology Field School posted a video of the ...

A man and a woman out for a seaside stroll on a Long Island beach discovered a human jawbone on Monday evening, police said. Suffolk County police responded around 5 p.m. to the report at Smith Point ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man. Reading time 3 minutes The Denisovans were a mysterious group of archaic ...

So far, the only known Denisovan fossils include partial jawbones, a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and Tibet. Some scientists believe fossils found in a cave in Laos ...

Scientists on a dig in Georgia have discovered what they believe to be a 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone Archeologists made the discovery during an excavation at a site called Orozmani In ...

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