THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs ... to one of the most elusive of human ancestors - Denisovans. Denisovans are a long-extinct human relative ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass spectrometry techniques to analyze the jawbone and determine that it belonged ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

These have included jawbones, teeth, and finger bones found ... Previous genetic signs of Denisovans have been found across large parts of Asia, and it's thought that they passed on genes that ...

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