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

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

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

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

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

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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.

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away. By Carl Zimmer For decades, fishermen sailing off the coast of ...

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

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 ...