A trove of bones, teeth, and more than 1,300 stone tools unearthed at Bianfu Cave offers a detailed look at how these extinct, elusive ancient humans hunted and survived.

Today, research teams primarily based in China released two papers in Nature detailing the discovery and analysis of Denisovan remains from Bianfu Cave, Yunnan, in southwestern China. Together, the ...

SEVEN PEOPLE, SIXTY THOUSAND BONES, AND FINALLY A DENISOVAN ON THEIR OWN For about fifteen years, one of our closest extinct relatives has existed mostly as a rumour with a genome attached. The ...

Relatively few fossils belonging to the enigmatic early human have been unearthed in the past. Two new studies describe seven ...

The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the Denisovans, it fills an enormous anatomical blank. Until now, ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

What can Denisovan tools and 25,000-year-old teeth reveal? New discoveries uncover ancient hunting, toolmaking and psychoactive plant use.

A new study finds Denisovans carried DNA from an unknown ancient lineage, revealing a hidden layer of human evolutionary ...

Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection thanks to DNA inherited from an extinct group of archaic humans known as the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.