The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of ‘Ushikawa Man’ were some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, but recent studies prove it to be something else. Scientists revealed that these bones ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

The fossilized bones of the so-called Ushikawa Man, once believed to be among the oldest human fossils in Japan, have been identified as the remains of an ancient brown bear. Gen Suwa, an ...

Using advanced mass spectrometry and other techniques, researchers identified preserved collagen remnants in the hip bone ... proteins like collagen, appear to be present in some fossils.

and so Japanese scientists — including the paleontologists who found the fossils in the 1950s — had a limited understanding of what bear bones could look like. Even so, these scientists had ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...