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

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

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

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

DNA from a prehistoric finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova cave revealed the existence of a new archaic human that shared ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

Mysterious 'dragon man' skull from the 1930s identified as a Denisovan, the first intact specimen of this human species that coexisted with modern humans.