The Red Deer Cave People might have been some of the most unusual and mysterious humans to walk the Earth in the past 20,000 years. Despite being around 14,000 years old – exceptionally recent ...

What’s the most enigmatic human ancestor, that we probably know the least about? There’s a good chance it’s the Red Deer Cave people. Despite walking on Earth relatively recently – only around 14,000 ...

Pictured here is the skull unearthed from Red Deer Cave in Yunnan, China. Xueping Ji DNA from Denisovans, a little understood group of archaic humans, and Neanderthals lives on in some humans today.