No bones about it: a first glimpse of what Denisovans looked like

Scientists paint a picture using genetic data alone. Dyani Lewis reports.

Face of the mysterious Denisovans emerges

Denisovans: Face of long-lost human relative unveiled

The reconstructions offer the first glimpse of what the Denisovan looked like.

This is What Denisovans May Have Looked Like

This is an estimate of what Denisovan's may have looked like, based on a new DNAS analysis technique. (Credit: Maayan Harel) Every time archaeologists pry the remains of a newly-identified ...

First portrait of mysterious Denisovans drawn from DNA

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02820-0Scientists analysed chemical changes to the ancient humans’ DNA to reveal broad, Neanderthal-like ...

This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like

A team has used DNA from an ancient fingerbone to predict what our extinct cousins the Denisovans looked like but the method is unlikely to be accurate

What did the Denisovans look like?

Scientist have used genetic data to reconstruct what an extinct group of ancient humans may have looked like.

First glimpse at what ancient Denisovans may have looked like, using DNA methylation data

If you could travel back in time 100,000 years, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what ...

Here’s what the Denisovans might have looked like

It's the first glimpse of the Denisovan look.

Ancient DNA reveals what our prehistoric relatives Denisovans looked like

Researchers have made first reconstruction of the skeletal anatomy of Denisovans and showed for the first time our ancient relatives looked a bit like us, but had wider skulls.

Extinct Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA from Her Pinky Bone

Scientists have recreated the face of a Denisovan woman — an ancient human who went extinct tens of thousands of years ago — using a groundbreaking DNA analysis.

Scientists reconstruct skeleton of elusive, pre-historic human

Researchers in Israel say they have reconstructed the skeleton of a pre-historic human from a long-extinct and elusive species using DNA found in the pinky bone of a 13-year-old girl who died ...

Facial Reconstruction Shows What the Enigmatic Denisovans Might Have Looked Like

A pinky finger bone, some teeth, and a lower jaw. That’s all the physical evidence we have of the mysterious Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins closely related to the Neanderthals. Remarkable ...

Ancient human ancestors the Denisovans passed us a key gene that boosted our immune system

The findings were based on an analysis of the genomes of families from Sydney, Australia, in which one child had a severe auto-immune or inflammatory condition.

Scientists use DNA methylation to determine what Denisovans looked like

Scientists have, for the first time, determined what the archaic humans Denisovans looked like.

Long lost human relative unveiled

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Many people are familiar with the existence of Neanderthals, the humanoid species that was a precursor to modern humans, but far less is known Denisovans, ...