The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

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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 ...

The research team conducted independent palaeoproteomic analyses and ancient DNA experiments on the skull and its dental calculus, providing proteomic and genetic evidence linking the Harbin skull to ...

Deformational plagiocephaly is different from craniosynostosis. Craniosynostosis is when a baby’s skull bones fuse together before they are supposed to. In deformational plagiocephaly, there is no ...

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

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.

A multidisciplinary medical team at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has successfully removed an object—suspected to be a ...