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Pleistocene mammals of Asia

  • Homo erectusIn 1893, Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois named a fossil Pithecanthropus erectus. He had found the skullcap and molar in Trinil, Java, during 1891.
  • Dire wolfIn mid-1854, a geologist named Joseph Granville Norwood found a fossilized jawbone in the bed of the Ohio River near Evansville, Indiana.