Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

An ancient jawbone discovered off the coast of Taiwan was identified as belonging to a Denisovan. The research was published ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

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.

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

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

Credit: Yousuke Kaifu A mysterious human jaw discovered off the coast of Taiwan doesn't belong to our species or Neanderthals ...

The jawbone belonged to a Denisovan man, according to the findings published Thursday in the journal Science. “We’ve determined and shown over the past couple of years that these proteins can ...