Denisovans were not just another type of Neanderthal or Homo sapiens. Genetic analysis revealed they formed a unique branch of the human family tree, splitting off from Neanderthals around 400,000 ...

Credit: Yousuke Kaifu A mysterious human jaw discovered off the coast of Taiwan doesn't belong to our species or Neanderthals, but to another extinct relative, Denisovans. "The same technique can ...

But in a new study, scientists say the bone may belong to one of the most elusive of human ancestors - Denisovans. Paleoanthropologists have long debated whether the bone came from a Homo erectus ...

An ancient jawbone discovered off the coast of Taiwan was identified as belonging to a Denisovan. The research was published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Science. "It opens an ...

But in a new study, scientists say the bone may belong to one of the most elusive of human ancestors - Denisovans. Denisovans are a long-extinct human relative who lived at the same time as ...

Why Trust Us? A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans—a species whose only other fossils have come from Siberia and Tibet.

The bone is thought to be at least 10,000 years old and could belong to the Denisovans, early humans who are related to us, but who experts don't know a lot about. More tests are needed before it ...

Research by the National Museum of Natural Science confirmed that Denisovans — a species of archaic humans — inhabited Penghu 100,000 years ago, revealing for the first time their presence outside ...

Alternatively, they might have met other human species such as the Denisovans on their own turf, and this interaction allowed for knowledge of their stone tool technology to disseminate eastward.

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...