From Science Magazine.

Last year researchers finally put a face to one of our long-lost relatives—confirming with DNA evidence that a 146,000-year-old skull known as the “Dragon Man” belonged to a Denisovan, an extinct lineage of humans that, like the Neanderthals, once shared the planet with modern humans.

CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) ABALDETE/POND5; (PHOTOS) CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; DONGJU ZHANG/LANZHOU UNIVERSITY; INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY/THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM; LONDON/SCIENCE SOURCE; VOLKER STEGER/SCIENCE SOURCE; YOUSUKE KAIFU; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE

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