Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery

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Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery

Chinese researchers unveil an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human.
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Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human.

The team has claimed it is our closest evolutionary relative among known species of ancient human, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.

Nicknamed "Dragon Man", the specimen represents a human group that lived in East Asia at least 146,000 years ago.

It was found at Harbin, north-east China, in 1933, but only came to the attention of scientists more recently.

An analysis of the skull has been published in the journal The Innovation.

One of the UK's leading experts in human evolution, Prof Chris Stringer from London's Natural History Museum, was a member of the research team.
 
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Hmmm, can't say that the name is not going to conjure up images of demons and wizards in the minds of some. Quite inappropriate name, imho, despite where it was found.

Yet another piece of the puzzle of our ancestry, one of too many. We don't even know anything about civilization(s) beyond 7000/8000 years or so, other than everything being discovered since then being tombs and religious objects/temples!
 
with a myriad of gene expression possible under the right internal environmental conditions ... we just an expression of the same root/base, like all the other sub species in our genus... nature loves to experiment/evolve... find fullest/highest expression of itself....
 
So there are multiple sentient intelligent species on this planet alone and yet there are still people who believe there are none on any other planets. Even though we have found a number of planets very similar to earth as well. I believe all forms of life is far more abundant in the universe than we can imagine.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
Inb4 someone says it's fake.
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It's provenance is certainly strange:
The skull was reportedly discovered in 1933 by a construction worker helping build a bridge on the Songhua river running through Harbin, in Heilongjiang province, which translated means Black Dragon River, hence the new human's name..

The city was under Japanese occupation at the time. Suspecting its cultural value, the Chinese worker smuggled it home, to keep it out of the hands of occupiers. He hid it at the bottom of his family's well, where it remained for around 80 years. The man told his family about the skull before he died, which is how it eventually got into the hands of scientists.
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rh1 said:
The team has claimed it is our closest evolutionary relative among known species of ancient human, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
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It's a bit early for such claims.
 
It's probably a fake. Story sounds dodge. Or a mutated inbred child skull.
 
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