Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

A fossil mandible (Penghu 1: 19,000 to 10,000 years ago) was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan and reported as the first and oldest hominin fossil from Taiwan in 2015.

Ancient protein fragments surviving in the chunky mandible, dubbed "Penghu 1", show it belonged to a male Denisovan, who lived sometime between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago. Denisovans ...

The crayfish were identified from eight mandible (jaw) fragments ... identified by carefully comparing them to the teeth and bones of a range of present-day creatures, including sea creatures and ...