Who were the ancient Denisovans? Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans
It was the finger seen around the world.
In 2008, archaeologists working in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, Russia, uncovered a tiny bone: the tip of the little finger of an ancient human that lived there tens of thousands of years ago.
The fragment didn’t seem remarkable, but it was well preserved, giving researchers hope that it harboured intact DNA. A team of geneticists led by Johannes Krause at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, removed 30 milligrams of bone and managed to extract enough intact DNA to analyse it. They were able to sequence the entire mitochondrial genome — and were shocked by what they found. The DNA did not match that of modern humans, or of Neanderthals, the other likely candidate1. It was a new population, which they dubbed the Denisovans, after the cave.
When the team announced this result in March 2010, it caused a sensation. Up to that point, researchers had used preserved bones to identify every species or population of hominin — the group that includes modern and ancient humans and their immediate ancestors. “Denisovans were created from DNA work,” says palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer at the Natural History Museum in London.
STEVE SMITH finds all of this incredibly offensive. The Denisovans stole fire from him and he had to go on a quest to get it back and it was a whole complicated thing.
Mysterious bacteria with ‘unique abilities’ discovered on Chinese space station
Chinese scientists discovered a novel strain of bacterium with “unique abilities” that allowed it to thrive on the Tiangong Space Station, according to a report.
The newly named Niallia tiangongensis was isolated by taikonauts from surface hardware on the China Space Station, according to a paper from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
The novel strain is closely related to the terrestrial bacterium Niallia circulans, which is found in soil, sewage, food and human stool — but exhibits several mutations that could prove beneficial in the study of life as it moves out into space, the paper claimed.
Scientists said the novel strain “demonstrates a unique ability to hydrolyze gelatin suggesting that it can utilize gelatin as a substrate in nutrient-limited environments,” according to the paper.
Nialla t. further showed “structural and functional” difference in two key proteins which “may enhance” biofilm formation, oxidative stress response and repair radiation damage, scientists claimed.
Nuke it. Nuke that shit right now. __The Andromeda Strain,__ you stupid bitches. IT’S GOING TO EAT OUR GELATIN! THAT’S JELLO, YOU DUMBASSES!
Is Denisovans on the “bring back” list that brought us the pseudo dire wolves?
They are already back.
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1925219287276343653
We have a female Highland Games competitor at our gym. She holds at least one world record. She’s super nice, great person, and her deadlift is crazy. Easily top 5 strongest in the gym, men and women.
https://614whats2love.com/2022/03/16/arnold-sports-festival-2022-emily-adams-highland-games/
I have never seen her around town.
She is ranked 26th in the world currently.
Which is probably under ranked, as Americans and especially collegiate Americans don’t have easy access to the meets that give the most place based bonus points.
Eyeballing top 5 performances of last 12 months, she is about 14th in the world.
The idea of an indoor caber toss is truly wild.
Hush you. You are giving them ideas. We dont need more knuckle-draggers stirring shit. Next thing you know they will be demanding their stolen land back. They had their run.
Encino Man. This is how you get Encino Man.
Unleash the robotic Pauly Shore …
For the love of all that is holy, no Pauly Shore in any form!
What do you have against Pauly Shore, buuuu-dddy?
Pauly’s wheezing on your grindage?
Wait… gelatin is made from bones.
“CHINA HAS BONE EATING BACTERIA… IN SPACE!”
I was thinking of all the poor hooved animals that would hobble around if it gets loose….
I’m waiting for MSNBC to do a full court press on how the bacteria originated in a wet market 250 miles below the space station.
If there was diarrhea at the counter, I’d complain too.
Are we still talking about the food?
Daria should be able to have an after school job too!
That was early.
Someone should make a movie about that…. and I’m surprised the music wasn’t this.
Better music
That Taco Bell reply is beautiful.
Burger King “onion rings” are a war crime.
Are they the sort that don’t contain whole onion rings, but diced onions in breading/batter?
Minced onion paste.
Is that why they’re so bad?
BK was always one of the few places I would get fries instead of onion rings.
Jesus.
It was done to solve the issue of the breading sliding off the onion…
“Minced onion paste.”
[recoils in horror at the culinary abomination]
“It was done to solve the issue of the breading sliding off the onion…”
Which is why there are battered ORs.
I don’t do a lot of deep fry, but I’m going to ‘speriment with scratch-made breaded ORs.
BK and TacoBell are both Hard No.
Looks like someone is horning in on Greta’s territory. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/21/jennifer-garners-daughter-blasts-the-wealthy-after-l-a-fires/
The fires had fuck-all to do with climate change, of course.
Does so!
It was calm, then it got windy, voila!
Climate change
I’m sure she took a train from Los Angeles to New Haven and definitely not a private jet or even a first-class commercial flight.
Archived version of article to avoid registration wall:
https://archive.fo/JlNnL
OMG, she’s as fanatical, smug, and insufferable as you’d expect.
But she’s “climate literate”!
I’m totally confident in stating that she’s taking more private jet flights already than I will in my lifetime (I’m at zero and will, sadly, probably stay there).
If I actually cared about such things, I’d be pointing out to her that her lifetime carbon footprint is already surely in the top 10% (5%?) even if she stopped all that now.
OMG, she’s as fanatical, smug, and insufferable as you’d expect.
That’s saying something, given the fact she’s at Yale, which means she’s already an over-achiever in those attributes.
I despair of the ignorance of such people, too.
If you google image search her she’s wearing a plague mask outdoors in about 40% of the pictures.
There’s a congressional hearing about adverse effects of the COVID vaccine. It’s going just as you’d expect, complete with Dems once again being on the wrong side of even more issues.
OMG, she’s as fanatical, smug, and insufferable as you’d expect.
Are we sure that’s not their “daughter”?
They have a trans child, because of course they do, but not that one.
There’s a congressional hearing about adverse effects of the COVID vaccine. It’s going just as you’d expect, complete with Dems once again being on the wrong side of even more issues.
According to what I saw earlier, the Trump regime is vindictive;y restricting access to the vaccine even though the entire population craves it.
Like Brawndo
It has the protein spikes immune systems crave.
Despite it being totally safe, with so few vaccine injuries it’s not even worth mentioning.
So, on a more serious note about the Denisovans, before the article cuts off with registration wall bullshit, it alludes to a possible other recent relative:
This is fascinating. And how many more recent relatives do we have?
Shittons.
there were a lot of Hominins.
Chinese man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqjeNSNuNPM
Florida Man is still with us. Maryland Man is a new evolution.
Evo-lution, or Devo-lution?
A Homo wearing a Jocko?
I do like the use of Mothersbagh’s dad as the general.
“Did you get the papers from the Chinaman”?
Makes me think of gorilla skulls, which can appear significantly different from population to population. I’ll wait for the DNA results. And even when ‘species’ are distinctly different in both form and habit, like wolves and coyotes and dogs, (or hawthorns and blackberries, had to throw that in there), they can all successfully interbreed with each other. Which makes species delineation rather difficult and often quite arbitrary.
The group was originally going to be called Dinosaur Man, with the theory that they had died off after experiencing rapid unscheduled disassembly. When this theory proved unfounded, the name was changed, since a dragon wouldn’t spontaneously explode.
But a Dino might.
My current case is fully built a fettled. It was also expensive. But otherwise…
Retro Silverstone FLP02 with Turbo Button
They made it!
[Holds up “NERDS!” sign often seen on GlibZoom]
But, yeah, I remember when “turbo” was the high tech buzzword of the day, much as “AI” is now. If the word “turbo” had not existed, Donald P. Bellisario would have had to have created it. And he’s still alive!
Oh.
For some reason, I thought the video would be showcasing BttF2 style hoverboards.
“I always win in my second season.”
Trump is playing the media like a fiddle today. You have them rushing to say there’s no evidence of white genocide in South Africa right after he just showed clips of various black leaders calling for their deaths.
NO EVIDENCE!!11!`1~!~11DEBUNKED CRIES THE BBC!1
Trump is a clown, but somehow his enemies manage to out do him.
They can’t help themselves.
His enemies are people who say that objective truth does not exist. Of course they say absurd things.
Its social media 101…dude does have that down pat
I haven’t followed South Africa very closely. Genocide is one of those words that’s overused and has lost its meaning, like racism, misogyny and name-a-phobia, so when I hear it, I get skeptical. Have white farmers been murdered? Probably. Is the murder rate worse than the overall rate in South Africa, which is pretty shitty? Don’t know. Should white farmers be nervous? I would be if I was out in the countryside rather than in a gated community and there’s a political party singing about killing me. I get the sense that Trump is exaggerating the genocide thing, but the media is being incredibly dismissive of a real problem in a way they wouldn’t be if the roles were reversed. It also seems that the farmers’ legitimate fear makes them a better candidate for asylum than most that have come across the border in the last four years.
They are following the same pattern as other African nations that killed off or ran off whites. The people foo-fooing genocide are playing word games. The black south Africans chopping up whites with axes and machetes are not playing games.
When national leaders start calling for the murder of certain ethnic groups it is appropriate to offer asylum to those people.
The left here is losing their shit because this group is white, western culture individuals. Also, Donald Trump.
And since they are white South Africans, the left thinks that they automatically supported apartheid.
Who knew there is 10 minute version of Sultans of Swing?
What a bum… not.
Dude. Alchemy Live
New species of human: given the time periods we are talking about and the geographic area I would imagine there are quite a few we dont know about and the contemporaries probably did not have bright dividing lines between them.
Two things to keep in mind:
1. Science is always polluted with politics and no area so much as this one.
2. Nearly everything I learned in school has turned out to be wrong. Probably everything we think we know now is also wrong.
Gravity is electromagnetic
Black holes aren’t real
We are more technologically advanced than any space aliens.
Epstein didn’t kill himself
Bumblebees don’t actually bumble
And, despite the name, honey bees are more spicy than sweet
But bumbles bounce.
oh yeah, about dragon man. Consider the source. The Chinese have what might be described as less than stellar credibility.
Burning Dog is the poor man’s Burning Man. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-fire-burning-dog-tenants-20339676.php
I think I saw Burning Dog open for Stone Temple Pilots back in ’91.
Butthole Surfers? Ya great band
I mentioned FAA is jumping on AI train…and im aiming to be the conductor. Putting in for a detail to make sure we arent thinking this AI shit is whatever they think it is
AI is the future, old man.
Didnt say it wasnt. Just want to make sure its a tool…not whatever the fuck some asshole think it isnt
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
Tech guys will know the day I’ve had. The 11 hour sev 1 tech bridge with duty managers, division directors, two vendors, and two technical teams all on the same voice call. We had to disprove every single possibility from the symptoms to the root cause even though the info pointing to the root cause was there since it broke. I came up with a workaround to get the users their data while the vendor at fault works on fixing the actual problem, but someone else is credited with it. I can’t go “actually, it was my solution” because I’d look like a credit-stealing asshole. It’s not fixed, I just have to log in every few hours to move some data around manually so things catch up.
I’m just tired. Not physically, mentally and emotionally tired.
*raises fist*
Those days suck.
Is it strange that when I hear someone talk about a celebrity’s son or daughter, my first inclination is to wonder whether they are actually a boy or a girl?
No, not these days.
I literally don’t “check anyone out” anymore because it’s a toss up which sex I’m looking at. This little game the trannies like to play at fooling people is… not something I am a fan of.
Gonna need to replace your gaydar with trannydar.
What kind of idiot pulls a trailer through the drive thru? Park it dipshit and walk inside.
Had this gem made the rounds here yet?
https://x.com/ShutupLyle/status/1925226224151941229
Hilarious and horrifying
That’s something
No. And that is as described.
Is there a follow up video of the dude Lyle getting beat up for exposing the stupidity of people while showing their faces on camera?
Leftists are quite violent.
No, but just dropped a few hours ago.
A “body language analyst” does his schtick on the Bartiromo interview of Patel and Bongino:
https://youtu.be/nQ7JOsJSEvc?si=unBKX2NSd6s5l-DU
It seems that Patel has crazy eyes and Bongino is bafflingly arrogant.