Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Scientists have discovered that an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan belonged to Denisovans, a little-known extinct group ...

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

The jawbone is currently recorded as a modern human, an identification that goes back to 1927. If this identification can be proven then this fossil indicates that modern humans or Cro-Magnons ...

The jawbone is currently recorded as a modern human, an identification that goes back to 1927. If this identification can be proven then this fossil indicates that modern humans or Cro-Magnons ...

Fishermen working off the coast of Taiwan have dredged up the jawbone of an ancient human ancestor that lived in the area around 200,000 years ago. The short, thick mandible has unusually large ...

"In human fetal development, a temporary upper jawbone (incisivum) forms and later fuses with the maxilla, though reports on its ossification [bone formation] sites vary," the researchers explained.

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