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The First Denisovan Forearm Bone Ever Discovered Fills a Key Knowledge Gap in Our Understanding of This Archaic Hominin

Ryan Whalen·September 12, 2026

This Denisovan radius fills a knowledge gap about these archaic hominins, whose fossils rarely include anything except skulls.

A Mysterious 45,000-Year-Old Seafloor Discovery Reveals New Evidence Denisovans Were Extremely Large

Micah Hanks·August 14, 2026

Ancient human fossils dredged from the seafloor near Taiwan are providing new insights into the appearance—and the large size—of the mysterious Denisovans.

A Mysterious Fossil from an Unknown Humanlike Species Once Baffled Scientists. Now We Know What It Is.

Micah Hanks·April 16, 2025

A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as Denisovan.

New AI Genome Analysis Finds Unknown “Ghost” Ancestor in Eurasian DNA

Raquel Santos·November 3, 2021

New findings show how AI could help explain the features of an unrecognized "hybrid" teenage girl who lived 50,000 years ago.

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The First Denisovan Forearm Bone Ever Discovered Fills a Key Knowledge Gap in Our Understanding of This Archaic Hominin

A Mysterious 45,000-Year-Old Seafloor Discovery Reveals New Evidence Denisovans Were Extremely Large

A Mysterious Fossil from an Unknown Humanlike Species Once Baffled Scientists. Now We Know What It Is.

New AI Genome Analysis Finds Unknown “Ghost” Ancestor in Eurasian DNA

SpaceX Just Launched a Mysterious Classified Mission for the U.S. Space Force—Here’s What We Know

Scientists Say the “Lizard Brain” Is a Myth, But the Truth About How Our Brains Evolved May Be Even Stranger

Scientists Discover Bacteria Growing Microscopic “Electrical Wires” With Extraordinary Conductivity

LSD, Psilocybin, and 2C-B Each Leave a Distinct Fingerprint on the Brain, New Study Finds

The First Denisovan Forearm Bone Ever Discovered Fills a Key Knowledge Gap in Our Understanding of This Archaic Hominin

Ancient Etruscan Tombs May Have Been Engineered to Manipulate the Senses, New Research Suggests

25,000 Years Ago, the Earliest Human Drug Use May Have Occurred on This Small Island

Astronomers Detected Three Mysterious “Glitches” in a Pulsar That Had Gone Silent for Years

Physicists Report Levitation Experiment That May Signal a Breakthrough in the Search for Mysterious Dark Matter

First-of-a-Kind Experiments Demonstrate Effects of Einstein’s Gravity in the Quantum World