Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan ... Based on the composition of marine invertebrates found attached to it, the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era.

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans ... The presence of marine invertebrates on the fossil suggests it dates back to the Pleistocene era.

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

A jawbone found on the ocean floor near Taiwan provides evidence that the Denisovans — a poorly understood ancestor to modern humans — occupied southeast Asia 100,000 years ago. DNA extracted and ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... near where a fossil jawbone was found in the Penghu Channel. (Takumi Tsutaya via AP) (Takumi Tsutaya) Based on the composition of marine invertebrates ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged ... Based on the composition of marine invertebrates found attached to it, the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era. But exactly which species ...

(AP) - An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged ... Based on the composition of marine invertebrates found attached to it, the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era.