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Penghu Seabed Leg Bones Identified as Denisovan Fossils

Protein analysis assigns two partial leg bones from the Penghu Channel to Denisovans pending peer review with genomic data required for confirmation.

Chilean Mummies Yield First Ancient Smallpox Genomes From the Americas

Ancient DNA Shows Malaria Killed Two Medici Brothers

Study Finds Healthy, Connected Neanderthals in Northwestern Europe Before Extinction

Plague Hit Lake Baikal Hunter‑Gatherers 5,500 Years Ago

Tooth Proteins Link East Asian Homo Erectus to Denisovans and Modern Peoples

DNA Study Ties Maryland’s First Colonists to 1.3 Million Living Relatives

Ancient Tooth Proteins Hint at Links Between Chinese Homo Erectus and Denisovans

Ancient DNA Review Finds Prehistoric Kinship Often Beyond Blood

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs Lived With Humans 15,800 Years Ago

Ancient DNA Pushes Dog Domestication Back to the Late Ice Age

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs in Eurasia 14,000–16,000 Years Ago

Ancient DNA Confirms Dogs Lived With Humans 15,800 Years Ago

Study Traces Live Amazonian Parrots Carried Across Andes to Pre-Inca Coast

Ancient DNA Study Traces Britain’s Bell Beaker Migrants to Rhine–Meuse Wetlands

5,500-Year-Old Colombian Skeleton Yields Oldest Treponema pallidum Genome

Ancient Colombian Skeleton Yields Oldest Genome of Syphilis-Related Bacterium

Wolf Pup’s Stomach Yields Woolly Rhino Genome, Pointing to Climate-Driven Collapse

Ancient Wolves Reached Baltic Island With Human Help, Study Finds

New DNA Study Finds Beachy Head Woman Was Local to Roman-Era Southern England