April
11
/ 2025
The Denisovans are the most enigmatic and mysterious of human ancestors, and also one of the most fascinating. Finds proving their existence have been incredibly rare, which is why the discovery of a new Denisovan fossil is always big news, and cause for celebration among those who study human evolution. So let the celebration begin: scientists have just announced that a fossilized, human-looking jawbone found off the west coast of Taiwan in the early 2000s is in fact Denisovan. These human ancestors lived in Asia in more recent times, and the discovery of this fossil in this location shows they ranged far and wide across southern and eastern Asia between 370,000 and 30,000 years ago, despite leaving such a scarce
