In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how biodiversity arises. Scientists have discovered that segments of “flipped” DNA help ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” ...

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

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 ...

New DNA and protein studies reveal the Dragon Man skull is of a Denisovan, rewriting the story of early human evolution in ...

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

Over the past fifteen years, since the first remains of the Denisovans were discovered in the Denisova Cave in Siberia, one ...

A remarkable discovery in China has linked the 'Dragon Man' skull to the elusive Denisovans, an extinct human group ...

What Denisovans looked like, despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians?" This is one of the most important ...