This earlier misstep spurred greater attention on the Ushikawa fossils, ultimately leading to their reclassification as bear bones. The discovery means that the oldest confirmed human fossils on Japan ...

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A study has found that what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Image: Monument to Ushikawa man. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...

But in the new study, a visual examination and computed tomography (CT) scan revealed that the supposed human humerus was probably the radius bone from the forearm of a brown bear (Ursus arctos ...

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"The findings were pretty clear that if you're viewing bears in the right way … (it) does not predispose them to bear-human conflicts later on," said Moody, who contributed to the study and runs ...

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McDonald’s Australia is channeling some 90s nostalgia with a character-heavy ad campaign that features Grimace and Hamburglar taking a road trip. Alongside Maccas Birdie and Office Big Mac ...