Read more The post Dragon Man Revealed: Mysterious Ancient Skull Confirmed to Be Denisovan ... we can revisit old fossils and see if they fit the Denisovan profile,” says paleoanthropologist ...

Digging into the details — One of the most interesting — and horrifying — findings from this study is that the man must have lived in agony before he was burnt alive by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Scorrano and his colleagues then compared the man’s genome with those from 1030 ancient people who lived during the last 5000 years or so and 471 present-day people from western Eurasia.

The chart shows the relative ups and downs in species counts, telling scientists about the origin, diversification, and extinction of ancient life. With this new study, the chart of life now ...