Archaeologists searching under a toppled tree in the Amazon discovered seven funerary urns buried beneath the roots. Of the ...

With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.