How we came to be what we are, What differentiates us from the rest of the animals, Why in the end we prevailed and not the other species, Why they have not survived, one of the most intriguing is Homo longi or the dragon man, which dragon is because it was discovered in China and dragons are a very important part of its mythology.
The thing is that this species of human also suits the title of dragon, because it must have been a very powerful type, very strong and quite tall, perhaps they were giants, scientists do not dare to give a size because only very few remains are preserved, in In reality, only one skull is preserved and when I say giant it would be much larger than the average height of the humans who had left Africa at the time when this homo existed.
It is very incredible, there is also a jaw that was found in 1980 in Tibet but it is about 3500 km from the discovery of the skull and there is debate if it really belongs to homo longi or if it belongs to the Denisovans, another species of the genus homo, also another great mystery, but the truth is that we only have one skull.
And the latest that is known about him is that they have managed to make a scientific recreation of what he would have looked like, the skull was elongated, it was so large or larger than our heads and its eyes must have been very large and its teeth quite large.
The skull was found in 1933, it came to us almost by chance and was found by a worker who was working on the construction of a bridge on the bank of the Shua River in Harbin, which at that time was part of the State of Manchukuo, Manchukuo was a state that was The Japanese invented it in the Chinese territories they had occupied and put Puyi, the last emperor of China, at the head.
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Japanese and the Chinese worker who found it did not want to hand over the skull to the authorities because he believed that it could have great value and would surely end up in Japanese hands. This Chinese worker we are talking about already knew the story. of Peking Man and knew the importance of this type of findings because Peking Man came out in many media outlets, where journalists announced it as the great missing link in the theory of evolution.
We have the worker, the skull and an environment of Chaos and war so the worker decided to hide the skull, and before his death was when he revealed its whereabouts, he revealed it to his relatives who finally went for him in 2018 In that year, the paleoanthropologist Sorry Chinese and Kang managed to convince the family to donate the skull to the GEO University of Hebei where right now.
In reality, we have only known about the existence of this homo longi for very few years. Now is when great work begins to design explorations and search for new remains in the region where it was found. We need more remains to learn more about this population. and above all remains that are within a context, the ideal would be to find remains in a cave, in a soil that had not been altered and in this way discover if there were artifacts around them or analyze fossil remains or stone utensils or remains of plants or foods on which it could have fed, all of this is the context of a site and also with that context it can be dated with greater precision.
We do not know if he was a solitary being or lived in groups, we do not know what his weapons and utensils were like, we do not know why he became extinct, the little we know is that he did not become extinct because he was weak or stupid, the skull we have of him It is quite large, it is about 23 cm long and more than 15 cm wide. Its brain was comparable in size to ours and a curious characteristic is that it had almost square eye sockets and, in addition to thick ridges on its eyebrows, they were quite looking. primitive.
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