Today, this fossil is known as the Harbin skull. Gurche used this skull to create a lifelike reconstruction of the Denisovan face. Paleoartists use fossils and genetic data to determine what ...

The molar of a Denisovan girl who lived more than 130,000 years ago may help answer how indigenous people living in Australia and other Pacific island nations share DNA with the early-human species.

Until recently, scientists thought the modern humans with the highest proportion of Denisovan ancestry lived in Papua New Guinea and Australia. According to a new study published yesterday (August 12) ...