1oddday June 25th, 2021 - A new species of human is being added to the list.
This story begins in China around the Japanese occupation, when Chinese laborers working on a bridge, discovered a massive size human skull. With fears of losing their find to Japan, they decided to hide the skull deep in a well. The skull would stay hidden for almost 90 years, until 2018 when the laborer who hid the skull passed the story down to his grandson.
Retrieved from the hiding spot deep in the well, researchers are calling the species Dragon Man in a new study published in a science journal.The name comes from Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River region) the north Chinese province where the skull was found.
The skull is unique, with a cranium size of 9 inches long, and 6 inches wide - dimensions much bigger than that of regular human skulls. The eye sockets are also much bigger and shaped different than modern human skulls.
The University of China has dated the skull to being 146,000 years old. After software analysis of the skull - scientists are placing Dragon Man closer to modern humans than Neanderthals.
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