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A tiny bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a girl who lived around 90,000 years ago, and her DNA revealed something archaeologists had never seen directly before — her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan

A tiny bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a girl who lived around 90,000 years ago, and her DNA revealed something archaeologists had never seen directly before — her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan

For the first time, scientists directly observed what happens when two extinct human species had a child together—and her remains were hiding in plain sight. The post A tiny bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a girl who lived around 90,000 years ago, and her DNA revealed something archaeologists had never seen directly before — her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan appeared first on Space Daily .