DNA from a prehistoric finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova cave revealed the existence of a new archaic human that shared ...

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

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

A remarkable scientific discovery is reshaping our understanding of human evolution. The analysis of an incredibly preserved ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

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 ...

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

Through genetic and protein testing, scientists detected residual mitochondrial DNA from ancient days in dental plaque and ...

The new findings, if confirmed, could effectively put a face to the Denisovan name ... A laborer in the city of Harbin in northeastern China discovered the Dragon Man skull in 1933.