The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

A jawbone fished from the ocean near Taiwan has revealed the first Denisovan ever found in the region — confirming the ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea. Off the western coast of Taiwan, ...

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

Confirmed Denisovan fossils now have been identified from three places - the Penghu Channel, Denisova Cave in Russia and the ...

The lower jawbone, from an individual named Penghu 1, is the first piece of fossil evidence that Denisovans were as ...