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Taiwan’s Denisovans Were Tall Ice Age Hunters, New Finds Suggest

Two Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan’s Penghu Channel imply tall statures around 180–190 cm with meat-heavy diets, linked by collagen to other Denisovan remains; dating places them ~45,000 years ago, adding eastern Asia to the Denisovan picture and suggesting possible contact with modern humans.