He was a big guy, somewhere around 50 years old when he died, and his discovery might just change the narrative on how modern humans came to be. Introducing Dragon Man, so nicknamed for China’s Dragon River region where his well-preserved skull was found, reports CNN. Researchers say he lived somewhere between 140,000 and 300,000 years ago, though he is not quite Neanderthal and not quite Homo sapien, per the Guardian. In fact, they have found Dragon Man to be distinct enough to create a new species for him—Homo longi, and they say this species is more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals. “If confirmed, that would change how scientists envision the origin of Homo sapiens, which has been built up over the years from fossil discoveries and the analysis of ancient DNA,” per the New York Times.
Even if the new species is not confirmed, however—and coverage includes the voices of skeptics—the consensus is unanimous that the skull is still an amazing find. As is its back story. In 1933, a Chinese laborer working on a bridge found the skull in the city of Harbin. He took it home and buried it in a well for safekeeping, possibly because he didn’t want it to fall into the hands of Japanese occupiers. It remained undisturbed until 2018, when the man spoke of it before his death.
Probably just the bones from something the Chinese ate.
I thought the science was settled?
What’s up widdat?
izlamo delenda est …
Congressman Al Green proves this…https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=mP%2bZpdjW&id=BEE7F0CD98925AEAB61A4875DA6BA48FD19DB915&thid=OIP.mP-ZpdjW13CZ_1ls0liYiwHaEK&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia2.foxnews.com%2fBrightCove%2f694940094001%2f2019%2f07%2f06%2f694940094001_6056127617001_6056134581001-vs.jpg&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR98ff99a5d8d6d77099ff596cd258988b%3frik%3dFbmd0Y%252bka9p1SA%26pid%3dImgRaw&exph=325&expw=578&q=al+green+politician&simid=608031562361413134&ck=C9974603A56CC22B3A1E8FDDB0DCE4CE&selectedIndex=0&idpp=overlayview&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0…..and he can sell you insurance….
Nephilim — look it up. Once again science is going to try to prove a Biblical fact.
Remind me where that farting clown Swalwell’s from. I know he’s had a China connection in the past…
Tim lol. Right?
STOP!
It’s a chinese ‘discovery’. LOL! Which means it was hidden for 80 years because it was complete bullshit. A scam.
Look, the chinese are the SAME assholes that claim they find “new dinosaurs” until someone else does the research and finds out they made the ‘new’ by putting pieces of other dinosaurs together. This is what the chinese do. They lie about everything. They don’t care.
STOP accepting shit from china.
Fucking scientists are so gullible these days!
Dragon Man – Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the fastest!
(and he didn’t question whut sex he wuz!!)
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Just compare DNA with Mike Obama. Problem solved.
RF, nice Ratfink. Where’s Digger, Davy and Daddy? I’ve got a couple of Rat finks my youngest brother gave me and a Ratfink baseball hat.
GENESIS SIX BABY!
Explains EVERYTHING. 🥳
The science is NEVER settled.
Dang! That dude is chiseled… They must have had an awesome gym 130,000 years ago.
China? I’m pretty sure I saw him at an intersection in Daytona Beach with a cardboard sign just last week…
This explains Maxine Waters!
You mean we’re not all from Africa?
Kinda looks like Yosemite Sam to me.
CNN? China? Yeah sure. Two of the biggest liars on the planet. “Dragon Man” is nothing more than Chinese lore and CCP propaganda – fake news.
Woke Karens and woke Kenneths. They are not human. God looked at them, shook his head and said “Nope, they’re not going to make it.”
Word is the species died off when a virus excaped from a cave.
Heck sakes, new species of man are continually evolving! If you don’t believe me just check our our congress critters!
Actually, I think it has now been proven that apes evolved from man and are a much higher species on the scale of life!
Not ONLY has NO “missing link” EVER been discovered, between man (homo sapiens), and any other species: NO “missing link” has EVER been found, between ANY species, and any OTHER species! 😮
Either a fish begat a reptile one day, and then a reptile a bird (which scientifically cannot be proved, or duplicated – even in a lab), OR… God created EACH animal, according to their OWN kind – Genesis chapter 2.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
As with ALL things in life, I’M gonna stick with God’s Word on this too. I guess I just don’t have enough FAITH, to believe in, “evolutionism.” 😳
@AbigailAdams: “… Once again science is going to try to prove a Biblical fact.”
I had it explained to me as such:
‘If you take but one drink from the glass of science, it will turn you into an atheist. But if you keep drinking and drink the whole glass, you will find God in the bottom.’
He’s holding an iPhone…time traveler left it outside his cave.
Congressman Al Green is from China? Who knew?
Whatever happened to Flipperpithecus?