News > ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree

25/06/2021 08:56 PM | Click to read full article

The strange skull appeared soon after the Japanese invaded northeast China in the early 1930s. A team of locals was raising a bridge near Harbin, a city in China’s northernmost province, when one of the workers stumbled on a surprise in the river mud.

The nearly complete human skull had an elongated cranium from which a heavy brow bone protruded, shading the gaping squares that once housed eyes.

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