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

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

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...

An ancient jawbone discovered off the coast of Taiwan was identified as belonging to a Denisovan. The research was published ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

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

Ancient Taiwan jawbone fossil confirms Denisovan presence, expanding their range across East and Southeast Asia regions.

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

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

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Researchers have identified the Penghu 1 fossil from Taiwan as Denisovan using protein sequencing. This marks the first ...