The first confirmed arm bone of a Denisovan has been discovered in southwest China, adding another piece to the puzzle of an elusive human relative that once walked the Earth alongside our own kind.

The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the Denisovans, it fills an enormous anatomical blank. Until now, ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...

The arm bone fragment excavated in 2013 at the site Mata Menge. Y. Kaifu We have discovered rare and very old human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult ...