Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both humans and Neanderthals, were only discovered in 2008. They lived across ...

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could ...

Two studies published on Wednesday in the journals Science and Cell presented molecular evidence confirming that the 146,000-year-old Harbin skull, discovered near Harbin in northeast China, ...

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative. Researchers suggest that this mandible, one of the rare specimens identified to date ...

As our ancient human ancestors migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they encountered Denisovans, a subspecies of archaic humans, in Asia. This event led to some type of interaction that ...

An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a mark on the immune traits of modern Papuans, in particular those living on New Guinea Island. This is a new ...

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 ...

The recent discovery of a Denisovan tooth in Laos represents the first fossil discovery of the enigmatic hominid species outside of Russia and Tibet. Although the genetic structure of modern-day ...

A molar found in a cave in Laos may belong to a member of the Denisovans, a group of ancient humans first identified in 2010. If confirmed, it would be the first fossil evidence of the Denisovans in ...

A fossil mandible (Penghu 1: 19,000 to 10,000 years ago) was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan and reported as the first and oldest hominin fossil from Taiwan in 2015. Penghu 1 ...