Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered “hominin” group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone. For years, the fossil ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell 1 and ...

The Denisovans, a mysterious group of ancient humans originally identified purely from DNA, finally have a face. Using molecular evidence, Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in ...

An ancient human jawbone dredged from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as a Denisovan fossil, proving that this enigmatic extinct human species once lived all over Asia. Recovered ...

At various points in the last 300,000 years, Denisova Cave has sheltered three different species of hominins. But with fossils from only eight individuals—four Denisovans, three Neanderthals, and the ...