Scientists have used DNA from a fossil to discover another species of human that lived alongside Neanderthal man and modern humanity.
For 10,000 years the species lived alongside the other types of humans until it disappeared - 40,000 years ago.
The fossil was uncovered by an international team of researchers in a Siberian cave and shows all three types of humans shared a common ancestor one million years ago - and all migrated independently out of Africa at different times.
The DNA was found from the pinky finger of a five to seven year-old child. The body was found surrounded by rudimentary tools and trappings of life dating from 48,000 to 30,000 years ago, with few other pieces of the body available to help anthropologists piece together what the being looked like.
According to the popular science magazine Nature, which we get for the nucleotide crossword, boffin Svante Paabo, was surprised to discover the new creature.
The creature was found with a copy of the Daily Mail tucked under her arm and was clearly concerned about the Neanderthals coming over to Siberia and stealing jobs. We made this last paragraph up.
she not passed by syphilis
for there were no
Daily Tattoographs
Ni Facebook and
social was not working
known informally as an
X woman in the laboratory
make of that what you will
'Tis a sign that is wafted
across the troubled cave,
'Tis a wail that is heard
upon the shore,
'Tis a dirge that is murmured
around the lowly grave
Oh! Daily Wail, come again no more!
Sweet Norah!
She is Femail!
'Tis the song,
'tis the sigh of the weary;
And he’s sighing now for a whisky
in a voice as dry as hay...
The Elephant Knight
sits on yon hill,
He blaws his horn
both lewd and shril
Blaw, blaw, blaw,
Blaw, blaw, blaw,
He blaws both night and day
Give the lout a triskele
and he'll trip all over hisself