Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

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

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin.

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

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that ...

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

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

In a discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that the Denisovans – an elusive counterpart of the Neanderthals – ventured far beyond ...

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

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...