Patrick and Annie Méchin dug up the abelisaurid's fossilized jaw. Patrick began fossil hunting as a teen; on one of their first dates, he and Annie went searching for dinosaur eggs. Once ...

The fossil, dubbed Penghu 1, not only underscores these archaic humans’ astonishing adaptability to diverse climates – from frigid Siberian caves to balmy Southeast Asian coastlines – but ...

Scientists have gained more insight into an extinct species of archaic humans after confirmation that the oldest human fossil in Taiwan is the remains of a Denisovan. Analysis of proteins extracted ...

An artist’s illustration of an ancient human male, who belonged to the Denisovans.Credit: Cheng-Han Sun. Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea.

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the ...

Palaeoanthropologist Andy Herries of La Trobe University, who was not involved in the study, welcomed the latest addition to the scant fossil record for Denisovans. "It's nice to have another jaw ...

The story behind the jaw’s discovery is as remarkable as the fossil itself. A young teenager, who was out looking for arrowheads along the creek on a friend’s farm, stumbled upon the ancient remains.

“The high-quality palaeoproteomic data obtained from Penghu 1 [the fossilized jaw], enabled by relatively good fossil preservation and optimized protein extraction methods, indicates that Penghu ...

A ground-breaking study shows the most detailed map of a mammal's brain to date. The 3D blueprints display more than two miles of neural wiring, close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million ...

Pinning down an exact age for the Penghu fossil is challenging because scientists do not have samples of the sediment it was buried in. “One can only say it’s older than 50,000” years ...

Earwax is normal and helps to protect and lubricate the ear canal. Usually, earwax clears on its own, moving to the opening of the ear through the help of chewing and jaw motion, where it falls out or ...