For more than half a century, a set of fossilized bones found in central Japan were considered a milestone in the ...

"The new research shows beyond a doubt that the bones are from an ancient brown bear," Suwa said ... and the head of a human femur, thought to belong to an individual who lived more than 20,000 ...

Fragments that were formerly believed to be pieces of the humerus and femur were compared with bones ... remains are most likely those of a brown bear. Other sites that were once thought to ...