A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

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Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors for ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.