A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as ...

Finding shows that the mysterious human ancestor could have lived in a variety of climates and was more widely distributed ...

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

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Researchers have identified the Penghu 1 fossil from Taiwan as Denisovan using protein sequencing. This marks the first ...