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

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Seven urns containing human bones were discovred in the Amazon after a tree fell, offering rare insight into early life and ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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