20,000-year-old ‘human’ fossils from Japan aren’t what we believed
A stock image of a bear fossil. (Image credit: Fabio Di Natale through Alamy Stock Photo)
The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," believed to be a few of Japan's a lot of ancient human fossils, are not what researchers thought they were, brand-new research study discovers.Rather, they are the bones of an ancient bear.The fossils were discovered in the late 1950s in the city of Toyohashi, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo. Gen Suwa, an anthropologist at the University of Tokyo who led the brand-new job, informed Live Science that questions about the Ushikawa fossils were very first raised in the late 1980s, and had actually continued considering that then.The brand-new research study, released Dec. 1, 2024 in the journal Anthropological Science, rev...