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

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 ...

"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 ...