This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

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

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.

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 ...

A remarkable discovery in China has linked the 'Dragon Man' skull to the elusive Denisovans, an extinct human group ...

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

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

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

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

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