Researchers of this study conducted uranium-based dating, which revealed that Homo juluensis lived sometime between 140,000 ...

Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both humans and Neanderthals, were only discovered in 2008. They lived across ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only ...

As our ancient human ancestors migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they encountered Denisovans, a subspecies of archaic humans, in Asia. This event led to some type of interaction that ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone. For years, the fossil ...

An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a mark on the immune traits of modern Papuans, in particular those living on New Guinea Island. This is a new ...

Forty years ago, a Tibetan monk wandered into the holy Baishiya Karst Cave and stumbled across a jawbone. The accidental discovery was the beginning of an anthropological mystery whose solution has ...

The most recent addition to the human family tree – named after its unusually fat head – roamed northern China at the same ...