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24 mar 2010 · The human family tree may be in for a dramatic rewrite. DNA collected from a fossilised finger bone from Siberia shows it belonged to a mysterious ancient hominid – perhaps a new species.
24 mar 2010 · X Woman could revise theories about human ancestors and when they left Africa. Scientists have found evidence of what might be a 'new creature' that is neither Neanderthal nor human.
24 mar 2010 · In a cave in Siberia, scientists have found a 40,000-year old pinky bone that could belong to an entirely new species of hominid. Or it may be yet another example of how hard it is to figure...
25 mar 2010 · The fossilized pinky bone was discovered in a cave called Denisova in the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, Russia. Though the pinky's owner has been dubbed X-woman, scientists think the pinky...
25 mar 2010 · The discovery raises the intriguing possibility that three forms of human - Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and the species represented by X-woman - could have met each other and interacted in...
25 mar 2010 · What they found was a real surprise. The team, led by geneticist Svaante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute, discovered that the mtDNA from the finger bone matched neither--suggesting there might have been an entirely different hominid species that roamed the planet about 50,000 years ago.
24 mar 2010 · The creature, nicknamed "Woman X" for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers...
