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A Denisovan jawbone found 60–120 meters deep off the coast of Taiwan and identified using paleoproteomics confirms Denisovans’ presence in warmer coastal Asia and suggests they thrived in diverse environments beyond Siberia. Dating is uncertain, estimated between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago, highlighting their adaptability and potential interactions with other hominins.
A 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus lower jaw found in Ethiopia's Afar region extends the genus's known range by about 620 miles, implying greater mobility and a more flexible diet that overlapped with early Homo, challenging long-held maps of early human evolution.
Genealogy students at Ramapo College in New Jersey confirmed that a jawbone found in a boy's rock collection in Arizona actually belonged to Captain Everett Leland Yager, a US Marine who died in a 1957 training exercise. The jawbone, complete with teeth, had been held by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office since 2002. Traditional DNA tracking failed, but whole genome sequencing led to a family tree profile, and the Ramapo students, along with a high school-aged intern, identified a lead candidate who turned out to be Yager's daughter. DNA results confirmed the match, and the jawbone will be sent to Yager's surviving family. The mystery of how the jawbone ended up in Arizona remains unsolved.
A jawbone found by a child in Arizona 20 years ago has been identified as belonging to U.S. Marine Capt. Everett Leland Yager, who died in a 1951 training accident. Traditional DNA testing had previously yielded no results, but a genetic profile was developed using genome sequencing and bioinformatics, leading to a match with Yager's daughter's DNA sample. The remains will be returned to Yager's family after being found in the child's rock collection and undergoing extensive forensic investigation.