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This Mysterious Jawbone Found in Taiwan Waters Isn’t Human or Neanderthal, It’s From a Different Ancestor

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
A jawbone found in Taiwan, identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans, challenges everything we thought we knew about where these mysterious hominins lived. Once believed to only inhabit cold, remote regions, the Denisovans were previously known only from fossils found in Siberia and Tibet. In 2008, an amateur fossil hunter named Kun-Yu Tsai bought a strange jawbone at an antique market in Southern Taiwan. The fossil had been pulled from …
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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