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Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal

Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools revealWorldPing

Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.

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