Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

Learn about a new study that confirms the 146,000-year-old Harbin skull belonged to a member of the Denisovan lineage.

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

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A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...

A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

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

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

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

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.