We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
arstechnica.com
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
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While the world is now aware of it, until 2021, only one person had known what the skull looked like since its discovery in the 1930s. It was unearthed in Harbin, in northeast China, during the Japanese occupation of the area. Not wanting it to be seized by the occupying government, the person who found the skull immediately hid it, and he kept it hidden for most of the rest of his life.
He eventually turned it over to scientists in 2018, who published their analysis in 2021.
Amazing.
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Pictures would be nice since this article specifically is talking about the features of the skull.
The other issue is we need a rather large sample to find out if this is a one-off, or a standard of a defined species.
Interesting either way.
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? Article has pictures, well, looks like scans, really.
Bottom one is a comparison of 2 different skulls showing we may have other Denisovan fossils and just not realize it.
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The face of a Denisovan
And then proceeds to describe a face. A skull is not a face.
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No facial reconstruction though. But yowza thems some big peepers.
So we're all descended from anime characters?