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 fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly where ...

DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands. By Carl Zimmer Leer en español Neanderthals may have ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so it was thought. New research has shown that a cranium discovered nearly a ...

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an open question since their discovery 15 years ago. Now, recent research by a ...

In 2010, DNA analysis of a finger bone around 40,000 years old revealed that it came from a previously unknown group of ancient humans, dubbed the Denisovans after the cave in Siberia where the bone ...

For decades, the Harbin skull—dubbed “Dragon Man”—remained shrouded in mystery, its massive features unlike anything seen before and unmatched by any known human ancestor. Now, cutting-edge genetic ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for ...

“What Denisovans looked like, despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians?” This is one of the most important questions that has arisen since the discovery of the ...