Dyani Lewis is a freelance journalist in Melbourne, Australia. Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the group. It’s the ...
A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in ...
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A skull pulled from a construction site in Harbin, northeastern China, in 1933 spent decades hidden in a well, then years classified under the wrong species name. Two studies published in 2025 have ...
This finger bone discovered in Siberia in 2008 led to the original Denisovan discovery. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late ...