Southern #China was home to #Neanderthals, not just Europe or Middle East, Middle Stone Age tools find suggests

#archeology #hominids #anthropology https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3305551/china-was-home-neanderthals-not-just-europe-or-middle-east-stone-age-find-suggests?utm_source=rss_feed

#archeology #hominids #anthropology #humanevolution

Fossil Bone fragments of oldest known Homo erectus face in western Europe found in Spain https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/bone-fragments-of-oldest-known-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain

#TIL the oversized ape King Louie in #Disney's most recent live action version of #TheJungleBook is not actually supposed to be an #orangutan but a remnant #gigantopithecus. This explains the character's baffling size as well as the fact that orangutans aren't native to India. Come to think of it, it even explains why Louie's the only one of his kind!

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/extinct-giant-orangutan-gigantopithecus-jungle-book.htm