{"id":115090,"date":"2021-06-28T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=115090"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:18:06","slug":"discovery-of-dragon-man-skull-may-add-new-species-to-human-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/discovery-of-dragon-man-skull-may-add-new-species-to-human-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of \u2018Dragon Man\u2019 skull may add new species to human family tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/discovery-of-dragon-man-skull-may-add-new-species-to-human-family-tree\/articleshow\/83862126.cms\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">TOI<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What is the News?<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the New Species of Human:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"110\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"111\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The researchers have named the new species<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Homo\u00a0longi.\u00a0It has been<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0nicknamed\u00a0\u201c<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dragon Man\u201d<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0for the Dragon River region of northeast China where the skull was found.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"110\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"112\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">When was it discovered?\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The skull was discovered in 1933 but only came to the attention recently after a\u00a0labourer\u00a0came across it at a construction site in China.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Key Features:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"111\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"113\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Dragon man is at least 140,000 years old but no older than 309,000 years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"111\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"114\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">It belonged to a mature male who had a huge brain, massive brow ridges, deep set eyes and a bulbous nose.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"111\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"115\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The skull is huge compared with the average skulls belonging to other human species including our\u00a0own. Its\u00a0brain was comparable in size to those from our species.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Significance of this discovery:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"112\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"116\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The discovery of Dragon Man\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">has the potential to rewrite the history of Human Evolution.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"112\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"117\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">It is said that\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Homo\u00a0longi\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">could replace Neanderthals as the closest relative to our own species, Homo sapiens.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0TOI\u00a0\u00a0 What is the News?\u00a0\u00a0 Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human.\u00a0\u00a0 About the New Species of Human:\u00a0\u00a0 The researchers have named the new species\u00a0Homo\u00a0longi.\u00a0It has been\u00a0nicknamed\u00a0\u201cDragon Man\u201d\u00a0for the Dragon River region of northeast China where the skull was found.\u00a0\u00a0 When was it discovered?\u00a0The skull&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/discovery-of-dragon-man-skull-may-add-new-species-to-human-family-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discovery of \u2018Dragon Man\u2019 skull may add new species to human family tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704917766},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}