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The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

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extinct relatives of modern humans. It suggests the species lived in diverse environments Researchers recently sequenced the genomes of two naturally mummified women found in Libya ...