Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so it was thought. New research has shown that a cranium discovered ...

The skull recovered first, and designated as Skull I of Locus L (Fig. 1), is the largest, ... the cheek-bone and fragments of the alveolar process of the upper jaw with palate and ten teeth in ...