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 ...

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

Humans have come a long way as the most dominant species on Earth, largely due to sophisticated adaptations, ingenuity, and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...