Farmers Dug Up a 300,000-Year-Old Skull. It’s Unlike Any Human Ancestor We’ve Ever Seen. Story by Elizabeth Rayne • 1mo ...

THE SKULL: A Tyrolean Folktale, by Jon Klassen Folk tales are meant to be flexible things, open-source stories infinitely moldable to the needs of teller and era.

The “Dragon Man” skull, which dates to 146,000 years ago and was discovered in 1933 by a laborer in Harbin City, China — when it was under Japanese occupation — was long shrouded in mystery.

A complete and “perfectly preserved” Ice Age horse skull fossil was unearthed at a Hester Creek placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region of the Yukon territory.