A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Now, researchers have discovered that in about one in every 4,000 births, some of the mitochondrial DNA ends up getting inserted into the nuclear genome, a molecular change that could be influencing ...

Learn about a new study that confirms the 146,000-year-old Harbin skull belonged to a member of the Denisovan lineage.

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

Each mitochondrion has its own DNA -- mitochondrial DNA -- that is distinct to the rest of the human genome, which is comprised of nuclear DNA. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down the maternal line ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

Most of the original α-proteobacterial genes have either been lost or transferred to the nucleus during evolution ... Active digestion of sperm mitochondrial DNA in single living sperm revealed ...