A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both humans and Neanderthals, were only discovered in 2008. They lived across ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Many people around the world have more Denisovan DNA than previously thought, which has contributed to their sense of smell and ability to thrive at high altitudes, according to a study released ...

Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only ...

The human family tree has many twisting branches, and we don’t fully understand most of them. One of the most enigmatic are the Denisovans, who were only discovered in 2008 and have been described ...

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative. Researchers suggest that this mandible, one of the rare specimens identified to date ...

Proteins and ancient DNA extracted from the Harbin cranium show that the so-called Dragon Man belonged to the Denisovans. The ...

We don’t know what the Denisovan looked like. We don’t know how it lived, what tools it used, how tall it was, what it ate, or if it buried its dead. But from only two teeth and a piece of finger bone ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Using artificial intelligence, a number of European evolutionary biologists now ...

Anthropologists have just hit the genomic jackpot. Among the thousands of bone fragments excavated from an ancient cave in Siberia’s Altai mountains, scientists have identified an inch-long shard that ...

Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins that once walked alongside (and had sex with) Neanderthals and modern humans, are an enigmatic branch of our family tree. They left fragments of their DNA ...