Neanderthal remains have been found less than 100 miles from Denisova Cave.

The Denisova Cave shows signs of being occupied by humans and their relatives periodically for at least 125,000 years.

Denisova Cave, an archeological site in Siberia housing what may be a newly discovered human species.

Fossils found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia turned out to date from about 50,000 years ago.

The cool climate of the Denisova Cave preserved the DNA.

So far, the fossils of four distinct individuals from Denisova Cave have been identified through their DNA.

The pinkie bone, from a child age 7 to 9 but of unknown gender, was found in the Denisova Cave in southern Siberia.

The tiny piece of finger bone was uncovered by archaeologists working at Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai mountains in 2008.

The Denisova Cave is located in south-western Siberia, in the Altai Mountains near the border with China and Mongolia.

They have now used a toe bone excavated in 2010 in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia to generate a high-quality genome from a single Neandertal individual.

The genetic material found in the Denisova Cave is a complete sequence of so-called mitochondrial DNA, the genetic material found in a cell's mitochondria.

In 2008, a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized fragment of a pinkie finger in the secluded Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia.

As DNA had survived in the fossil fragment due to the cool climate of the Denisova Cave, both mtDNA and nuclear DNA were sequenced.

They describe mapping DNA from what appeared to be a youngster's pinkie finger bone, which had been recovered in 2008 from Denisova Cave in Altai Mountains of southern Siberia.

In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of Denisovans.

The bone used to sequence the genome was discovered by Professor Anatoly Derevianko and Professor Michael Shunkov from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010 during excavations at the Denisova Cave.

Scientists made the discovery after studying DNA from a piece of finger bone and two molars found at same Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia as the Neanderthal toe bone.

The cave also contains stone tools and bone artifacts made by modern humans, and Pääbo commented: "The one place where we are sure all three human forms have lived at one time or another is here in Denisova Cave."

The bone fragment was found in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia which is rich in stone tools and bone implements having been intermittently occupied by ancestors of humans for 125,000 years.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig said they were able to sequence the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia.

In March 2010, scientists announced the discovery of a finger bone fragment of a juvenile female who lived about 41,000 years ago, found in the remote Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, a cave which has also been inhabited by Neanderthals and modern humans.