About 90,000 years ago, a young girl lived in the Altai Mountains, a remote range located in what is now Russia. She died when she was only 13 years old, and her bones were piled up in a cave. Those ...

Denisova cave in southern Siberia was home to Neanderthals and Denisovans for thousands of years, but questions remain about the timing of their stay. A pair of new studies traces the history of ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

For thousands of years, Siberia’s Denisova Cave was home to various bands of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans. But as new research shows, animals occupied this cave more frequently than not ...

Scientists digging in the mountains of southern Siberia have revealed key insights into the lives of Denisovans, a mysterious branch of the ancient human family tree. While these relatives are extinct ...

Denisova Cave, high in the mountains of Siberia, was a happening place for our ancestors 300,000 years ago. Anthropologists have known that for a while: Scientists have excavated bones and teeth there ...

Denisova Cave, located in the foothills of the Altai mountains, is an extraordinarily important place in the history of human evolution. For over 300,000 years, this cave was the home to various ...

The Denisova Cave in Russia, first excavated about 40 years ago, holds fossil clues to the hominin branches on the evolutionary tree that lie close to Homo sapiens. Efforts to track the two species in ...

During the past decade, the Denisova Cave in Siberia has yielded some of the most fascinating fossils ever found. To the naked eye, they are not much to look at — a few teeth, bits of bone. But the ...

The Denisova cave in Siberia served as home to the Neanderthals and the Denisovans for thousands of years. Questions, however, remain when these two extinct human relatives occupied the site. In two ...

Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins that once walked alongside (and had sex with) Neanderthals and modern humans, are an enigmatic branch of our family tree. They left fragments of their DNA ...

The mysterious Denisovans may have occupied a cave in what is now Siberia for more than 250,000 years. By Carl Zimmer Over the past decade, the Denisova Cave in Siberia has yielded some of the most ...