A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans—a species whose only other fossils have come from Siberia and Tibet. Though DNA ...

Using a variety of technology and techniques, researchers affiliated with several institutions in the Russian Federation found that the fossil once ... a part of western Siberia along the Kiya ...

They found two protein variants known to be specific to Denisovans—enough to “confidently identify” the fossil ... location,” somewhere outside Siberia and Tibet. That’s an inherently ...

Using oyster shell fossils records and combined with high ... forming “dark bands.” These shell-bearing organisms act as natural time recorders, preserving detailed evidence of Earth’s ...