Two studies published on Wednesday in the journals Science and Cell presented molecular evidence confirming that the 146,000-year-old Harbin skull, discovered near Harbin in northeast China, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...

For decades, the Harbin skull—dubbed “Dragon Man”—remained shrouded in mystery, its massive features unlike anything seen before and unmatched by any known human ancestor. Now, cutting-edge genetic ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has sequenced the second high-quality Denisovan genome, extracted from a molar discovered in Denisova Cave, Siberia.

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Meet the new face, and braincase to boot, of Asia’s mysterious Stone Age denizens, the Denisovans. The nearly complete, roughly 146,000-year-old skull of an adult male was found nearly a century ago, ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

(CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human. Now, scientists ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When early modern humans encountered Neanderthals and Denisovans, these archaic humans contributed DNA to our genomes. But how many archaic human ...

During the Japanese invasion of northern China in 1933, a man was hired to build a bridge across the Songhua river near the city of Harbin. As he was digging, he found a large, ancient cranium ...