Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

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Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan fossil.

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

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The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) ...

“Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with only a ... “We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements” in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya.