Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks—especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...

Rhinos that flourished across much of North America 12 million years ago gathered in huge herds, according to a new study.

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...