In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

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

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

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

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...