Scientists hail stunning ‘Dragon Man’ discovery
Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human. The team has claimed it is our closest evolutionary relative among known species of ancient human, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
Nicknamed “Dragon Man“, the specimen represents a human group that lived in East Asia at least 146,000 years ago.
It was found at Harbin, north-east China, in 1933, but only came to the attention of scientists more recently.
An analysis of the skull has been published in the journal The Innovation.
One of the UK’s leading experts in human evolution, Prof Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, was a member of the research team.
“In terms of fossils in the last million years, this is one of the most important yet discovered,” he told BBC News. “What you have here is a separate branch of humanity that is not on its way to becoming Homo sapiens (our species), but represents a long-separate lineage which evolved in the region for several hundred thousand years and eventually went extinct.“
Artist’s impression of what Dragon Man may have looked like. His skull suggests he was powerfully built and rugged. Image: Kai Geng
The researchers say the discovery has the potential to rewrite the story of human evolution. Their analysis suggests that it is more closely related to Homo sapiens than it is to Neanderthals.
They have assigned the specimen to a new species: Homo longi, from the Chinese word “long”, meaning dragon.
“We found our long-lost sister lineage,” said Xijun Ni, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang.
He told BBC News: “I said ‘oh my gosh!’. I could not believe that it was so well preserved. You can see all the details. It is a really amazing find!“
The skull is huge compared with the average skulls belonging to other human species. Its brain was comparable in size to those from our species.
Dragon Man had large, almost square eye sockets, thick brow ridges, a wide mouth, and oversized teeth. Prof Qiang Ji, from Hebei GEO University, says it is one of the most complete early human skull fossils ever discovered.
“It has a mosaic combination of primitive and more modern features, setting itself apart from all the other species of human,” the researcher explained.
The scientists believe that Dragon Man was powerfully built and rugged. But little is known about how he lived, because his skull was removed from the site in which it was found.
This means that there is currently no archaeological context, such as stone tools, or other elements of culture.
The skull was reportedly discovered in 1933 by a construction worker helping to build a bridge on the Songhua river running through Harbin, in Heilongjiang province, which translated means Black Dragon River, hence the new human’s name..
The city was under Japanese occupation at the time. Suspecting its cultural value, the Chinese worker smuggled it home, to keep it out of the hands of occupiers. He hid it at the bottom of his family’s well, where it remained for around 80 years. The man told his family about the skull before he died, which is how it eventually got into the hands of scientists.
The researchers claim the form of ancient human on the far left may have evolved into the relatively modern Dragon Man on the far right over millions of years. Image Kai Geng
Dragon Man joins a number of early human remains uncovered in China that have proven difficult to categorise. These include remains from Dali, Jinniushan, Hualongdong, and the Xiahe jawbone from the Tibetan Plateau.
There has been a fierce debate about whether these remains represent primitive examples of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, a human group called the Denisovans, or something else entirely.
The Denisovans were first identified from DNA retrieved from a 50,000-30,000-year-old finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave, Russia. Because the remains associated with this sister lineage to the Neanderthals were so fragmentary, the group has been described as a “genome in search of a fossil record“.
Prof Marta Mirazon Lahr, from the University of Cambridge, believes that Dragon Man was, in fact, a Denisovan.
“The Denisovans are this fascinating mystery population from the past. There is a suggestion (from DNA evidence) that the jawbone found in the Tibetan Plateau might be a Denisovan,” she said. “And now because the jawbone from Tibet and Dragon Man look like each other – now we might actually have the first face of the Denisovan.“
And a group that recently published details of remains from Israel belonging to a possible precursor species to the Neanderthals, believes Dragon Man might be descended from humans that first emerged in the Levant region.
But the Chinese researchers maintain that the hard-to-classify fossils from East Asia represent the gradual evolution of a new species. Prof Ni has a gracious response to those that disagree with this assessment.
“The results will spark a lot of debate and I am quite sure that a lot of people will disagree with us,” he said. “But that is science and it is because we disagree that science progresses.“
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Chris*
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I’ve seen a few blokes look like that, and none of them were attractive.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Chris*
Yeah, the artists depictions are always the best way to stimulate the goyim. No evidence of viruses or pathogenic transmission. No problem, just use a little imagination and Oh Vey! there’s the virus and a spike protein attaching to the cell.
Need men on the moon in 1969 for the Apollo money laundering program. Just rent Kubrick’s studio and use his front screen projection techniques with some cobbled together props. Time to end the Challenger scam, just “kill off” those brave ass tronauts and end the program. Need to start another war for Greater Israel. Just fake a 911 with cartoonish planes going through steel reinforced buildings and then do a WMD’s hoax and the goyim will be hopping all over waving Jewmerica’s flag.
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Mark Tapley
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Looks a lot like Biden’s assistant Sec. of Health Racheal (((Levine))). Maybe it was a tranny Neanderthal.
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Mark Tapley
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There have been lots of these “new species” of humans over the years in. order to keep the endowments flowing in. There was the Pilt Down man, Java man, Lucy, the Nebraska tooth (hog) and many more. The evolutionists have a story line that they are trying to fill in. The problem is that there is no mechanism to do it with. They cannot demonstrate one case where an animal has evolved into another “new species.” If the DNA (building blocks) are not there it Ain’t going to happen. The great mutation hope of evolutionists has turned into another dead end. Reminds me of all the MSM hype about the “gain of function” research, and “variants” with the fake virus, when they don’t even have a purified tissue sample to begin with.
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itsme
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i remember years ago, when they made a big fuss over the ‘lucy’ bones – one of the researchers actually commented on how the skeleton was very similar to the dwarf chimpanzee of today.
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Protestant
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Impossible as it may seem, when you read or listen to hundreds of modern eyewitness accounts of Yowies, Bigfoot & the British Woodwose, you realise that Neanderthals never went away, but were forced into hiding. And since the Neanderthals were & are completely covered with shaggy hair to keep warm, like the Yowies, Woodwose, Yetis & Sasquatch, they are much better equipped to survive the coming Ice Age than relatively hairless modern humans.
The Australian audio accounts can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/YowieSightings/videos
Australian maps & written reports here:
https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/queensland/1330-springbrook-qld-1984
Some British ones here:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bigfoot-roaming-uk-cluster-sightings-21484870
British sightings map here:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1s1zOmmdM216PMftPUM9K1qqGrFg&ll=51.32624134335206%2C-2.6829140675772534&z=10
Some American ones here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFgf9V3W4aWrebHhf2dJGQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaLzcBWIgJ63lH6Wp3NrCQ
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T. C. Clark
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Looks like Nanci Piglosi……but not as ugly.
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Artelia
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The ‘evidence’ of human evolution is FAKE science. Most science today is Fake science.
Could be a panda skull for all we know. The neanderthal head shape is just like my stepfathers. It is stupid, it is apes or humans.
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