The right half of an ancient Denisovan mandible found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau at more than 10,000 feet. There the monk found half of a human mandible. Proteins pried out of its ancient teeth revealed the mandible belonged to a Denisovan, an extinct human species related to Neanderthals. No remains of another human species have been found at such a high altitude. That’s more than 100,000 years before the first signs of modern humans living in the Tibetan Plateau.

Source: Washington Post May 01, 2019 17:06 UTC