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Behold the Dragon Man – not a dragon, a Denisovan. Source: CC BY 4.0
7 JUL 2025 · 3 MIN

True Identity of ‘Dragon Man’ Confirmed: Northeast China Denisovan

At long last, scientists have confirmed the true identity of the remarkably intact skull nicknamed “Dragon Man.” Unearthed in Harbin, Northeast China, the skull was initially proposed as a separate species back…
The four east Asian homo species in the reclassification and their locations. Homo juluensis on the left is new. Source: C Bae and X Wu; Nature Communications.
3 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Homo Juluensis: “Bigheads” Join the Growing List of Proto-Humans

Something new in the field of paleoanthropology: researchers have discovered a new species of human. Well, not human exactly but a close relative of Homo sapiens, which has been named Homo juluensis…
Something strange has been found on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Two sets of footprints show two different hominin species, apparently coexisting.
2 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Cross-Species Friends? 1.5 Million Year Old Footprints Show Hominins Cohabiting

Lake Turkana in Kenya feels like an alien world. The lake, brackish and saline, is surrounded by desert and what life survives in the area does so in defiance of its inhospitable…