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

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 ...

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

Initially discovered in 1933 by a Chinese laborer in Harbin City, China, the skull was once thought to belong to a new human ...

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

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.

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.