Researchers Stunned After Discovering 20,000-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to a Bear, Mistook It to Be of a Human Initially The 20 ...
The Ushikawa fossils were initially presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived more than 20,000 years ago. But in the ...
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 ...
The same crack-like space appears in the upper arm bone (humerus), seen just above the skull in the main image. In most populations, these bones fuse between the ages of 13 and 17. I'm guessing ...