DNA from a prehistoric finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova cave revealed the existence of a new archaic human that shared a common ancestor with both Neanderthals and modern humans. Researchers ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

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

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

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

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

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

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

I am going to tell you all about the Breaking News that Dragon Man is actually a Denisovan, as Ancient DNA and protein ...

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

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 ...