Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

The ancient origins of a mysterious jawbone dredged by commercial fishers off the coast of Taiwan have been revealed: it came from an enigmatic, extinct type of human called a Denisovan.

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