Scientists uncover prehuman jawbone in Taiwan   

澎湖发现下颚骨化石 系台湾最古老人类化石

据台湾《联合报》报道，台湾自然科学博物馆和日本、澳大利亚学者合作，在澎湖海沟发现“澎湖原人”下颚骨化石，是台湾最古老的人类化石，也是直立人分布最东边的关键证据。这一项重大发现，昨天(27日)登上国际顶尖学术期刊《自然通讯杂志》。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- The National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan has unearthed a jawbone from an ancient human ancestor in the Pescadores trench off the western coast of the island. 

According to a team of scientists, the jawbone, of an adult Pescadores primitive, is between 190,000 and 450,000 years old and presumably older than Zuozhen man, the ancestor of aboriginals on the island. 

By virtue of the abundant natural resources in Taiwan, Pescadores primitives retained most features of the Homo Erectus, an extinct species of early man that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene era. 

The topic is being researched by the National Museum of Natural Science along with Japanese and Australian experts, while the Pescadores jawbone will be put on display at the museum, in Taichung city, from February 2015.