At the bottom of the Penghu Strait between Taiwan and mainland China, fossilized bones of lower limbs have been found, which indicate the existence of giant people described in the Bible. It is reported by the British Daily Mail.
Analysis of proteins preserved inside the bones linked the finds to the Denisov lineage, which once inhabited vast areas of East Asia. The research was conducted by scientists from the University of Tokyo.
"The fossils, including part of the femur and tibia, were found in the Penghu Strait between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland… The remains... have once again given rise to theories about giants," the newspaper writes.
The man whose bones were found was about 190 cm tall and weighed about 90 kg, which is significantly higher than today's average size. These extraordinary sizes led independent researcher Jimmy Corsetti to suggest that it was the Denisovans who may have become the characters in the story of the nephilim, mysterious creatures mentioned in the Bible (in chapter 6 of the Book of Genesis, the nephilim are described as the children of angels who "entered the daughters of men").
The fact that the fossils were recovered from the seabed also confirms the versions linking the Nephilim with the story of the Great Flood.
Scientists from The University of Tokyo believes that according to the results obtained, Denisovans in the northern hemisphere had a larger body size than Homo erectus, as well as Homo sapiens of the late Pleistocene in East Asia. This challenges the so-called Bergman rule, which suggests that the large brain of Denisovans arose due to their large body size, at least in part.
The possible sizes of these individuals put them among the largest known ancient people of the Ice Age. Denisovans were up to 25 cm taller and up to 30 kg heavier than Homo erectus, who lived in northern China about 750,000 years ago.