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Named in honor of Kris Fowler and David O’Sullivan, a pair of hikers who went missing on the Pacific Crest Trail, the ...
The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).
In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...
Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.
Simply labeled “lizard,” the fragmented and several millennia-old bones actually belonged to ... polygonal armor attached to their skulls and sharp, spire-like teeth. While these lizards ...
A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...
Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...
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.
The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...
This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...
A year after an escaped bull injured three fans in Sisters, Oregon, J.J. Harrison came back, knowing, ‘There is no rodeo in ...
Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...