For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

An extinct species has been uncovered in Japan after sitting in a museum for decades.

Imagine wandering through the lush, tangled forests of Southeast Asia, sunlight flickering through a sea of emerald ...

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

During the Pleistocene, sea levels were low enough ... Densiovan DNA has been found in peoples of mainland and island Southeast Asia, and even as far as Australia. Aboriginal peoples of Australia ...

The map is from a paper titled “A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan” published in the journal ... The quake had a depth of 72.4km and was centered 15.5km south-southeast of Yilan County ...

This extends the geographic range of this lost ancient species further into Southeast Asia, where they likely interbred with ... cousins with whom they shared the Earth during the late Pleistocene and ...

Modern human populations in eastern Asia, particularly in the southeast, have genomic elements derived from ... A robust male Denisovan individual was walking under the bright sun during the ...