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The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

A study has found that what scientists had thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Once known as the Ushikawa man, the fossils were found in the city of ...

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

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 ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.

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