Archaeologists working on Crossrail have donated to the Museum a piece of 55 - million - year - old amber and a woolly mammoth
jawbone fragment unearthed in London.
More fossils, such as a toothed
jawbone fragment (left), unearthed in the following decades forced a reclassification of the fossil into an already existing genus, dooming the joke to oblivion.
A jawbone fragment described earlier this year is just the fourth ever found.
The researchers believe these bones, which were thought to be the limbs of land - dwelling dinosaurs, may be other giant ichthyosaur
jawbone fragments, but it's hard to know for sure until a more complete skeleton turns up.
Not exact matches
The new remains — six teeth, a
fragment of
jawbone and a tiny piece of skull — don't settle the issue, but Yousuke Kaifu at Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science and his colleagues think they back the shrunken H. erectus theory.