The research team conducted independent palaeoproteomic analyses and ancient DNA experiments on the skull and its dental calculus, providing proteomic and genetic evidence linking the Harbin skull to ...

Researchers first described the skull in 2021, estimating it to be at least 146,000 years old and distinct enough to merit a ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

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.

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

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.

Alexander McQueen was many things to many people: a genius; a puerile provocateur; a young upstart who became Givenchy’s head ...

The Bronze Age Xiaohe culture (ca. 1950–1400 BCE) is renowned for its distinctive funerary practices and exceptional organic ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although ...