Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts failed, revealing insights about this human species.

The skull has a more elongated top, and doesn’t seem to resemble any of the skulls of other ancient humans that we’ve uncovered in the past, including the Neanderthals, which you can see an ...

The human skull discovery was made by an anthropologist in the Halloween section of the North Myers store, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The skull has similar facial features to those of early modern humans. The skull could potentially belong to a direct human ancestor called Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and 750,000 years ago.

In the 1970s, as a middle-school science teacher, I bought a preserved human skull from an educational-supply company. I did so in part for my own and my students’ education and wonderment, and ...