Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

Denisovans Interbred With Modern Humans — and Gave Them Genetic Advantages: Study Move aside, Neanderthals, new suitors of ...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...

Scientists uncovered bone fragments from an ancient child in a Siberian cave estimated to be around ninety thousand years old ...

A comparison between the Denisovan genome recovered from a fossil fragment at Denisova Cave and fragments of Denisovan DNA in modern human genomes suggests that both populations were recognizably ...

Details of the Denisovan-specific and male-specific peptides identified from Penghu 1. (CREDIT: Science) The jaw was dated to somewhere between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago.

Until now, we hadn't found a single Denisovan skull. Or, rather, we didn't think we'd found one. Turns out, one was found in the 1930s.

A 160,000-year-old Denisovan jawbone from the Xiahe site in China tells a different piece of that evolutionary story, but one that lines up well with what Denisova 3’s little finger tells us.

Even today, some humans from east Asia and Melanesia still have traces of Denisovan genes in their DNA. That the Denisovans even existed only became clear in 2010, following a genetic analysis of ...

Some people living today, especially those from Papau New Guinea and aboriginal Australians, have as much as 5% Denisovan DNA. East Asians have about 0.2% Denisovan DNA.

The right half of an ancient Denisovan mandible found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau at more than 10,000 feet. (Dongju Zhang/Lanzhou University) ...

Even if this new fossil turns out to not be Denisovan, any new human fossil from an area where few ancient human fossils have been unearthed so far, such as Laos, "is important, especially if it's ...