An extinct species has been uncovered in Japan after sitting in a museum for decades.

For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

Along with the fossils, paleolithic tools were also found at the site, indicating that early humans lived with these giant ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The map is from a paper titled “A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan” published in the journal on Thursday. Photo: Screen grab from the Science Web site Genomic evidence suggested that ...

Archaeologists uncovered 11,000-year-old pottery in Mongolia, pushing back the timeline of human innovation by nearly 2,000 ...

Off the coast of Taiwan, a human jaw was discovered, and it does not belong to our species or Neanderthals. […] ...

A fossilized mandible discovered in Taiwan has been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, an enigmatic group of ancient ...

Colossal Biosciences claims it has revived an extinct species, but scientists outside the company are skeptical.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad “ Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with only a few confirmed finds in East Asia, said study co-author ... the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era.

"Denisovan fossils are very scarce," with only a few confirmed finds in East Asia, said study co-author ... the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era. But exactly which species of early human ...