It’s not just any fossil, but one that reshapes the map of human ancestry ... Until now, the Denisovans — an enigmatic branch of archaic humans — had only been identified with certainty ...

They were found to be closer in resemblance to Homo sapiens rather than other archaic ... of early human migration in several ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

In the decade since Penghu 1 was documented, paleoanthropologists have disagreed on whether the robust jaw with large teeth came from a Homo erectus, an archaic Homo sapiens, or a Denisovan.