‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
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And then there was the skull’s unusual size: “It’s enormous,” says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of London’s Natural History Museum.
Perhaps aware of the magnitude of the find, the man secreted the skull away in an abandoned well. 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.
Two additional studies reveal that the stunningly preserved cranium likely came from a male that died at least 146,000 years ago. Its mashup of both ancient and more modern anatomical features hints at a unique placement on the human family tree.