But their cousins, the Denisovans, are more mysterious.

但他们的表亲，丹尼索瓦人，却更神秘。

It's not entirely clear, but the fate of another human species called the Denisovans is even less clear.

目前还不完全清楚，但另一种被称为丹尼索瓦人的人类物种，其命运就更不清楚了。

Most of the bones were from animals hunted by the Denisovans.

大部分骨头来自丹尼索瓦人猎杀的动物。

But, Neanderthals and Denisovans already living there did.

但是，已经生活在那里的尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人做到了。

The researchers believe the Denisovans killed the animals for their meat.

研究人员认为丹尼索瓦人为了吃肉而杀死了这些动物。

As a result, some of the Neanderthals and Denisovans live on in our genes.

因此，我们的身体里有一些尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人的基因。

These ancient human relatives, and others, called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors.

这些远古的人类亲戚，以及其他被称为丹尼索瓦人的人，曾经与我们早期的智人祖先生活在一起。

Denisovans are known only from remains found in three places.

丹尼索瓦人只能从三个地方发现的遗骸中得知。

Denisovans live on today in the genomes of some modern-day humans, from the South Pacific.

丹尼索瓦人至今仍存在于一些来自南太平洋的现代人类的基因组中。

They even placed a gene carried by Neanderthals and Denisovans into mice to investigate its effects on biology.

他们甚至将尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人携带的基因植入老鼠体内，以研究其对生物学的影响。

But what happened to the Denisovans seems to be a mystery.

但丹尼索瓦人的遭遇似乎是一个谜。

He said, " It is the first time we have gotten an understanding of the subsistence behaviors of Denisovans."

“这是我们第一次了解丹尼索瓦人的生存行为。”

Genetic examination showed that Denisovans were closely related to Neanderthals, other human ancestors who lived in Eurasia.

基因检测表明，丹尼索瓦人与生活在欧亚大陆的其他人类祖先尼安德特人关系密切。

Denisovans, the extinct cousins of Neanderthals, have been known only by scraps of fossils from a Russian cave in Siberia.

丹尼索瓦人是已灭绝的尼安德特人的近亲，人们只从西伯利亚一个俄罗斯洞穴的化石碎片中了解到他们。

We have no idea when Denisovans may have gone extinct, but they're clearly not around today.

我们不知道丹尼索瓦人是什么时候灭绝的，但很明显他们现在已经不存在了。

Denisovans and real-life Hobbits, Homo floresiensis didn't leave much behind to know them by, but Neanderthals are a different story.

丹尼索瓦人和现实生活中的霍比特人，弗洛雷斯人并没有留下太多可以了解他们的信息，但尼安德特人不一样。

In fact, a monk found a piece of jawbone there in 1980, which has been tenuously linked to the Denisovans.

事实上，一名僧侣在1980年在那里发现了一块颌骨，这与丹尼索瓦人有微弱的联系。

Remains of Denisovans are known only from the cave where the bone was found.

丹尼索瓦人的遗骸仅在发现骨头的洞穴中为人所知。

Now, scientists have uncovered more of the range of the Denisovans, says Diyendo Massilani of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

德国马克斯·普朗克研究所的迪扬多·马西拉尼表示，现在，科学家们已经发现了更多丹尼索瓦人的活动范围。

Further genetic work like this might give scientists more clues where early Homo sapiens first met-and mixed with-the elusive Denisovans.

类似这样的进一步的基因研究可能会给科学家们提供更多的线索，早期智人是在哪里与难以捉摸的丹尼索瓦人相遇并结合的。