The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human relatives.

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

Different histories of contact with Denisovans in East Asia: While the ancestors of mainland East Asians met Denisovans ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When early modern humans encountered Neanderthals and Denisovans, these archaic humans contributed DNA to our genomes. But how many archaic human ...

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 ...

Scientists found a 160,000-year-old jawbone from a human ancestor in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans today can live at high altitudes.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A skull discovered in 2021 nicknamed “Dragon Man” has been identified as belonging to a group of early hominins known as Denisovans. Evidence of ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone. For years, the fossil ...

A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from ...