A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age. The 14,000 year old bone -- found ...

A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age. The 14,000 year old bone -- found ...

Like the skull bones from the site, it is also dated to about 14,000 years old. But unlike them, it provides a much clearer indication of what at least some of the Red Deer Cave people bones might be.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The team prepared 40 mm long blocks of dry antler and wet deer femur and measured the amount of force needed to ... The mechanical properties of red deer antler bone when used in fighting ...