Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

Jaw pain can occur at the jaw's joint or in the muscles that control movement. There are many potential causes, and they may ...

"It opens an important door in the study of human evolution," said Antonio Rosas, head of the Paleoanthropology Group at the ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...

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

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

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

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

The sacrum and the coccyx each consist of multiple bones that fuse over time. L5-S1 consists of the last bone in the lumbar spine (low back), called L5, and the triangle-shaped bone under it, known as ...