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Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts failed, revealing insights about this human species.
Xijun Ni Geochemical dating places the skull at 146,000 years or older, an era when human species were on the move along with woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and perhaps giant beavers.
Now, nearly 90 years later, a study published in the journal The Innovation makes the case that this skull represents a new human species: Homo longi, or the Dragon Man.
Then in 2018, a farmer decided to donate the old family skull to Hebei GEO University. It was immediately subjected to a battery of examinations resulting in three different studies. One dated it ...
A gigantic fossilized skull that was hidden in a well in China for 90 years has just been discovered by scientists — and it's making them rethink human evolution.
A PUZZLING discovery of a skull in northeastern China may belong to an early species of humans dating back over 146,000 years ago. Researchers have composed a sketch of what the dragon man or Homo … ...
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed from mother to child, recovered from the skull showed that Dragon Man was related to an early Denisovan group that lived in Siberia from around 217,000 ...
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