A small bone fragment from Denisova Cave revealed a 13-year-old girl with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. This ...

Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens. By analyzing traces of DNA left behind by ...

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans, a little-known extinct group closely related to Neanderthals and modern humans. The jawbone fragment, along ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as ...

(CNN) — A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...