For most of human history, we thought we knew who our closest relatives were. Then a fragment of pinky bone in a Siberian cave, a skull hidden in a well for decades, and a chamber full of bones deep in a South African cave system rewrote the story entirely. New discoveries in 2025 and 2026 have finally given the mysterious Denisovans a face... and raised the possibility that a small-brained relative may have buried its dead 100,000 years before we did.
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