The fossil chip, found in a Siberian cave called Denisova, looked as if it might have come from a 66,000-year-old relative of today’s humans, or maybe a Neanderthal. But Fu, then a graduate student at ...

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Given the skull’s age and backstory, Fu said she knew it would be challenging to extract ancient DNA from the fossil to better understand where it fit in the human family tree.

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But the bone contained 95 proteins, a tremendous number for an ancient fossil and enough to determine what it was: a Denisovan. As exciting as that discovery was, Dr. Fu said, their failure to ...

These pellets likely belonged to wood-eating oribatid mites - minuscule arachnids with fossils dating back almost 400 million years. Many of their tunnels ring those left by the termites, telling us ...