The molar of a Denisovan girl who lived more than 130,000 years ago may help answer how indigenous people living in Australia and other Pacific island nations share DNA with the early-human species.

Listed among our early romantic conquests are the Denisovans, and researchers now believe we mated with at least three ...

Archaeologists find new fossil from Denisovans, an elusive extinct species of human, in a Buddhist sanctuary cave in Tibet and also deduce what they ate July 07th, 17PM July 07th, 17PM Once upon a ...

Discovered in 2010, Denisovans are distantly related archaic humans with DNA distinct from both ... Two major classes of genes are associated with the immune system and diet, and further study may ...

Until recently, scientists thought the modern humans with the highest proportion of Denisovan ancestry lived in Papua New Guinea and Australia. According to a new study published yesterday (August 12) ...