Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new study that deepens scientific understanding of the enigmatic ancient humans first ...

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

Humans weren’t just making babies with Neanderthals back in the day. A new study that compares the genomes of different groups of modern humans has found that our ancestors interbred with another ...

One of the most surprising details of human evolution revealed by the sequencing of DNA from ancient fossils is that some bones thought to be Neanderthals were actually those of an entirely new kind ...

Genetic data of unprecedented completeness have been pulled from the fossil remains of a young Stone Age woman. The DNA helps illuminate the relationships among her group — ancient Siberians known as ...

Neanderthals, Denisovans and our ancestors were mixing and mingling a long time ago -- and some of our genetics can be traced back to these archaic humans. In Asians, as much as 3% of an individual's ...

A new paper by archaeologists at UC Davis highlights that our extinct cousins, the Denisovans, reached the “roof of the world” about 160,000 years ago — 120,000 years earlier than previous estimates ...

Denisovans’ days of Stone Age obscurity appear numbered. The mysterious “ghost clan” floated into view over a decade ago, when a bit of a girl’s pinkie bone, found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave, yielded ...

Neanderthals, Denisovans and our ancestors were mixing and mingling a long time ago – and some of our genetics can be traced back to these archaic humans. In Asians, as much as 3% of an individual’s ...

A new article highlights that our extinct cousins, the Denisovans, reached the 'roof of the world' about 160,000 years ago -- 120,000 years earlier than previous estimates for our species -- and even ...