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Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines

  • Written by Adam Brumm, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
Rhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the PhilippinesExcavations at Kalinga in Luzon's Cagayan Valley (Philippines). G.D. van den Bergh, Author provided

A dig in Luzon, an island in the northern Philippines, has uncovered fossils of an “Ice Age” rhinoceros that was butchered around 700,000 years ago. It’s the first evidence demonstrating the presence of archaic humans in the...