This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Ancient DNA confirms Dragon Man was Denisovan Posted: February 9, 2026 | Last updated: February 11, 2026 Protein analysis and ancient DNA extracted from the Harbin skull indicate it belonged to a ...

Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60 ...

A personal top five of 2021 archaeology discoveries highlights the Dead Sea Scroll fragments from the Cave of Horror, the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “This implies different dispersals for modern humans into East Asia and suggests that Denisovans were sparsely distributed in the region,” the ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...