The plot thickens

[Bluedog]

Denisovans, primitive humans lived at high altitudes in Tibet!
Scientists have identified a Denisovan fossil, its mandible found in Baishiya Karst cave, 3280m up on the Tibetan plateau.
This fossil has been found to be 160,000 years old.
With the news from the Indian Army regarding supposed yeti footprints and now this discovery put yeti firmly back into the spotlight!

[bassplyr]

How big were denisovians thought to get?

[Yowie bait]

How big were denisovians thought to get?

Just take a guess or make an assumption like the scientists do. Doesnt matter you can change it later anyway if your wrong.

[Wolf]

A more detailed post (from FB) by Gary Opit:

Yeti Proven to exist? A study published 1st May 2019 in the scientific journal Nature reveals a jaw with huge teeth found in a Tibetan cave at 3,300 metres / 10,760 feet altitude, provides evidence that the Yeti is Homo denisovan. Researchers extracting proteins from the jawbone and tooth dentine found that Denisovans had a stunning amount of diversity and that this hominin was high altitude adapted. A thick hair-covering and stouter body-size, both features of the Yeti, Yeren, Almas, Yowie and Sasquatch / Bigfoot, are adaptations to decrease heat loss in cold environments. An Indian Army high-altitude-experienced platoon just released photographs of a biped’s footprints in the snow, further evidence that giant hairy Denisovans may still survive.
"This really is the first time we've got confirmation that there was a non-modern or archaic hominin group living in this challenging high-altitude area," said Dr Curnoe, who is chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage at the University of New South Wales. People living across Asia and Australasia today carry Denisovan DNA in their genomes proving that stone-age people in Asia and Australia mated with the giant hairy humans, perhaps not by choice. This helps modern Tibetans thrive in low-oxygen environments.
The study has piqued other researchers' curiosity about what else may be hiding at elevation. “The high mountains of Asia are really, really unknown. People usually just assumed nobody lived there” says paleoanthropologist Bence Viola of the University of Toronto, who is an expert on Denisovan fossil morphology.
Found by a Tibetan monk in Baishiya Karst Cave in Xiahe, Gansu province, China and preserved in a museum, it was not studied until 2010 by Lanzhou University scientists. A detailed analysis of its physical features as well as proteins extracted from the fossil suggest that the mandible, dated to 160,000 years old, comes from the enigmatic human population known as the Denisovans, a sister group to the Neanderthals.
"We are the first to provide an argument to relate fossil hominins from northern China to the Denisovans from the Denisova Cave," said Jean-Jacques Hublin, director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. It proves that ancient giant hairy humans thrived on the "roof of the world" 120,000 years before our species, Homo sapiens, arrived.
The first known prehistoric human from Taiwan has been identified and may represent an entirely new species that lived as recently as 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. The newly discovered big-toothed human, 'Penghu 1', strengthens the growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens was not the only species from our genus living in Europe and Asia between 200,000 and 10,000 years ago.
Anthropologists have learned that Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo floresiensis (aka. the 'Hobbit') lived in Europe and Asia within that time frame. Penghu 1, which is described in the latest issue of Nature Communications , adds to that already impressive list and might have co-existed and even interbred with our species. The Xiahe jawbone had big molars, which are known to be a feature of Denisovans. They also had three roots, which are a feature found in a big-toothed human recently found in Taiwan known as Penghu 1.
These unique robust three-root teeth and relatively recent Denisovan-like skulls have just been unearthed in Victoria and publicly displayed at the Forgotten Origins / Secret History of Australia conferences organised by Duncan Roads, Nexus Magazine editor. This is evidence that Yowies are Denisovans.
The first fossil evidence of this giant human species was found in Denisova Cave in Siberia.
Professor Hublin believes Denisovans, Penghu 1 and another mysterious fossil found in Xujiayao in China may be related. "This is quite exciting because it's the first time we can relate not just one specimen to the Denisova Cave hominins but also to find a map of sites or individuals in Asia that may represent one group."
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[gregvalentine]

How big were denisovians thought to get?

Just take a guess or make an assumption like the scientists do. Doesnt matter you can change it later anyway if your wrong.

You're wrong, it's "you're wrong" . . .

The Spelling Dictator.

[adventurer]

Oh please, is this a spelling Bee now ? Get of your high horse. What normal person gives a dam.

[Yowie bait]

Oh please, is this a spelling Bee now ? Get of your high horse. What normal person gives a dam.

Yeah you tell him Dee . Anyways ima grate spella.

[Bluedog]

Oh please, is this a spelling Bee now ? Get of your high horse. What normal person gives a dam.

Yeah you tell him Dee . Anyways ima grate spella.

Haha yowie bait, you mightn't be a grate spella, but as long as your a good fella that all that matters.

Cheers

[Yowie bait]

Oh please, is this a spelling Bee now ? Get of your high horse. What normal person gives a dam.

Yeah you tell him Dee . Anyways ima grate spella.

Haha yowie bait, you mightn't be a grate spella, but as long as your a good fella that all that matters.

Cheers

Well said Bluedog! That should be the forum motto.

[Bluedog]

Yeah you tell him Dee . Anyways ima grate spella.

Haha yowie bait, you mightn't be a grate spella, but as long as your a good fella that all that matters.

Cheers

Well said Bluedog! That should be the forum motto.

All good mate, you've been pulled up on spelling, some one is bound to accuse me of plagiarism!
Black fella, white fella by the warumpi band is one of my all time favourite Aussie songs, that rifff at the start gets me eveytime!

[Yowie bait]

Haha yowie bait, you mightn't be a grate spella, but as long as your a good fella that all that matters.

Cheers

Well said Bluedog! That should be the forum motto.

All good mate, you've been pulled up on spelling, some one is bound to accuse me of plagiarism!
Black fella, white fella by the warumpi band is one of my all time favourite Aussie songs, that rifff at the start gets me eveytime!

Warumpi band was cool. Yeah great riff at the start.

Hey heres a good one.." Good spella bad spella greg valentine bad smella!"

[gregvalentine]

Yeah you tell him Dee . Anyways ima grate spella.

Haha yowie bait, you mightn't be a grate spella, but as long as your a good fella that all that matters.

Cheers

Well said Bluedog! That should be the forum motto.

You boys all need to "get a room" . . .

[Simon M]

Denisovan DNA is present in the modern human population, just as Neanderthal DNA is. In small amounts, it has to be said, but they were part of our ancestry.

Just saying.

[Simon M]

https://www.livescience.com/65402-denis ... ateau.html