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"We've had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s--only nobody knew." Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents. Accessed on 19 June2025, 0440 UTC. Content and Source provided by "ARS Technica." URL--https://arstechnica.com. Please check URL or scroll down to read your selections. Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com). ARS Technica 86 Most popular We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew 100+ Ars Technica - All content / 12h A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in 2021 declared it a new (to us) species, Homo longi . But the Harbin skull still contains enough of its original proteins to tell a different story: A few of them matched specific proteins from Denis Honda’s hopper sudde...