The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, from Black Hills, SD, is around 250,000 years old ... light thick fur and stronger jaw. As hyper-carnivores, their diet comprised at least 70% meat from ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

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

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

Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant. She’d seen them ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Professor Kaifu and colleagues teamed up with researchers at the University of Copenhagen, who had helped identify the Tibetan fossil, to extract and analyse protein fragments in Penghu 1's bone ...

Scientists have gained more insight into an extinct species of archaic humans after confirmation that the oldest human fossil in Taiwan is the remains ... or 130,000 to 190,000 years ago showed that ...

A new species of fossil from 444 million years ago that has perfectly preserved insides has been affectionately named "Sue" after its discoverer's mom. The result of 25 years of work by a ...