The jawbone fragment, along with various animal fossils, was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait, which once was dry land. It eventually ...

Named Penghu 1 by archaeologists, the jawbone is the most intact Denisovan fossil of the less than 15 identified to date, and the first discovered in Taiwan. Denisovan remains have been found in ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. (NEXSTAR) — Missouri Vietnam veteran Jim Eddleman had a vision: he wanted to honor other Vietnam vets — but he wasn’t sure where to do it. The perfect place ended up being in ...

A resurfaced video of a 6-foot-long pliosaur skull — dubbed the "Underwater T-Rex ... dubbed the “Underwater T-Rex,” was discovered — a 6-foot-long fossil that once belonged to a creature that ...

Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with only a few confirmed finds in East Asia, said study co-author Takumi Tsutaya at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan. So far ...

A bill that would have required fossil fuel companies doing business in Oregon to pay for the downstream and multigenerational costs of their climate pollution will not move forward. The Senate ...

They found two protein variants known to be specific to Denisovans—enough to “confidently identify” the fossil, according to Janet Kelso, a computational biologist at the Max Planck ...

What little we know about Denisovans is based on a handful of fragmented fossil remains unearthed in Siberia’s Denisova Cave and China’s Tibetan Plateau. A new analysis, however, adds another ...

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36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada, were examined. (Photo: Getty) Evolution has been one of the ...

Eleven attorneys general — along with dozens of city, county, and tribal governments — are pursuing lawsuits that charge that the industry misled consumers about the dangers of burning fossil ...