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

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

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass spectrometry techniques to analyze the jawbone and determine that it belonged ...

A fossilized mandible discovered in Taiwan has been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, an enigmatic group of ancient ...

It is one of very few Denisovan fossils to have ever been unearthed, along with those discovered in Denisova Cave (more fragments were found since the finger bone and molar) and another mandible ...

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs to has baffled scientists since it was dredged up in the 2000s. But in a new study, scientists say the bone may ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Ancient protein fragments within the jaw’s teeth revealed the bone, known as Penghu 1, belonged to a Denisovan man who likely lived on a submerged land bridge that once connected what’s now ...

Now, an international research team from Japan, Taiwan, and Denmark revealed that Penghu 1 was derived from a male Denisovan by sequencing its bone and tooth proteins. The molecular identification of ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought, according to new research by a UCD -based archaeologist.