An article published in the journal “Nature” reports evidence that a jaw discovered in Baishiya Karst Cave, in the Xiahe Chinese region, on the ibetan plateau, dated from about 160,000-year ago, belonged to a Denisovan. A team of researchers coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Germany, and by the Lanzhou University, China, extracted proteins from the mandible and one of the molars that are specific to determine the relationship of that individual with the Denisovas whose remains were discovered in Siberia.