A giant fossilized skull was discovered by researchers in the Dragon River region of China. Scientists now claim that this skull is actually a new species of ancient humans. So far, mankind has clearly recognized three species, including the extant human race or Homo sapiens. This new development adds another type of species to the list.
The discovered skull is at least 140,000 years old.
It belonged to a mature male with a huge brain, huge brow ridges, dark eyes and a protruding nose. The skull had been hidden in an abandoned well for 85 years, after a worker was exposed at a construction site in China. Scientists analyzed the chemical composition of the fossil, and determined that it was at least 146,000 years old, but no more than 309,000 years old.
The researchers named the new species Homo longi and nicknamed it ‘Dragon Man’ for the Dragon River region of northeastern China, where the skull was discovered.
Making it more interesting, researchers now claim that this species was an extinct human species mostly closely related to our own. This refutes the existing theory that Neanderthals were most closely related to Homo sapiens. If confirmed, it could significantly change our view of how – and even if – our species, Homo sapiens, evolved. Many experts questioned this conclusion, published in three papers. But many still thought the discovery could help scientists reconstruct the human family tree.
Researchers argue that Dragon Man’s physical features are not found in previously named species of hominins, a lineage of bipedal apes that split off from other African apes and later became a series of large-brained species that spread across the planet. It spread.
‘It is distinctive enough to be a separate species,’ said Christopher Stringer, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and co-author of two of the three Dragon Man papers.
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