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Recently, the researchers from China have claimed to have found an ancienthuman skull that would belong to an altogether new species of humans.

·        The researchers working in Israel have also recognized a previously unknown kind of ancient human referred to as “NesherRamla Homo” that co-existed with homo sapiens nearly 100,000 years ago.

Key Highlights

·        The researchers have noted that the cranium (the portion that encloses the brain) can be over 146,000 years old.

·        The skull was found within the Songhua stream in north-east China’s Harbin town.

·        The findings from the site in Israel are dated to 140,000-120,000 years past.

·        The members of the species NesherRamla Homo may hunt little and huge game and that they used wood for fuel, cooked and roast meat, and maintained fires.

·        Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) are believed to be the nearest extinct human relatives and lived regarding 400,000-40,000 years past in Europe and southwestern to central Asia.

·        As per the Smithsonian National museum of natural history, there are over twenty one human species .

How China’s Dragon slot in the definition of human?

·        The cranium found in China has been dubbed the “Dragon Man” or Homo longi.

·        The name has been derived from the Long Jiang or Dragon stream in theHeilongjiang province of China wherever town of Harbin is found.

·        The os was reportedly discovered back in 1933, once a bridge was built over the Songhua stream.

·        The UK’s natural history museum notes that due to the distinctive form of the os, that was found nearly complete, some members of the team have recommended that or not its declared a part of a new species of the genus homo.

·        The size of the skull, that has a considerable brain capability, is like that of contemporary humans and Neanderthals.

Songhua river

·        It flows northward out of the Changbai Mountains and cuts across the manchurian Plain before emptying into the amur river, that separates northeastern China from Russia’s far east.

·        It is that the largest tributary of the Heilong stream.

·        The supply of the stream may be a crater lake referred to as Heavenly Lake with an elevation of 2,189 meters at the highest of the ChangbaiMountain.

·        It is considered that its Chinese name “Songhua” is from its manchurian pronunciation “Songga-liwula”.