For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

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

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

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

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

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

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An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

Sets of prehistoric three-toed footprints pressed into stone have led paleontologists to discover a new dinosaur in the ...

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.