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

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

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

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

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.

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

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their ...

So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thanks to the remarkably well-preserved skull, we finally know what the ...