The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human family tree has many twisting branches, and we don’t fully understand most of them. One of the most enigmatic are the Denisovans, who were only discovered in 2008 and have been described ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mystery of what our ancient ancestors looked like is solved, scientists say. Turns out our prehistoric relatives — aka the Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins — had a wider face than humans, ...

Ancient DNA from the massive Harbin skull reveals it belonged to a Denisovan population closely related to modern humans. The find confirms that Denisovans occupied East Asia for over 100,000 years ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence of Denisovans—our long extinct, ancient relatives—outside of Siberia. Researchers found a 160,000-year-old jawbone belonging to the hominin ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are genetic variants in modern Melanesians that are found in very few populations. Scientists writing in the publication Science think they have worked out where they came from—Neanderthals and ...