Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species looked.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Ancient Taiwan jawbone fossil confirms Denisovan presence, expanding their range across East and Southeast Asia regions.

"We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya.

“Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record consists of only that finger bone, a jawbone, teeth, and skull fragments. “But by leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments in Modern ...

“We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements” in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya.

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...