A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque. Skip to main content. Scientific American. June 20, 2025. 3 min read.

A dozen or so Denisovan fossilized bone fragments had previously been found and identified using ancient DNA. But the specimens’ small size offered little idea of what this shadowy population of ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

If the mandible was Denisovan, researchers wondered, then the matching Harbin cranium might be, too. One of our closest cousins, the Denisovans left artifacts such as stone tools and decorative ...