I participated in a drawing secret santa this year, so here's my take on a dragon fighter–Mr. Maximilliam–for Augusto Ladeira!

https://bsky.app/profile/augustolad.bsky.social

This was a lot of fun :)

#secretSanta #dragon #MastoArt #dragonman

«A badly crushed cranium..that once defied classification→now shaking up human family tree.

Scientists..reconstructed the squashed skull, thought 2 B 1M yrs old, its features suggest fossil belonged 2 same lineage as striking specimen called “#DragonMan” & the #Denisovans, enigmatic, recently discovered population of prehistoric humans w/ murky origins. The skull’s age & categorization as early Denisovan ancestor would mean the group originatd much earlier than thought»

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/scientists-say-a-skull-unearthed-in-china-challenges-the-timeline-of-human-evolution/

From the blog: The #Denisovans got a face! - Turns out, it’s #DragonMan’s ...

https://trowelandpen.com/2025/06/20/the-denisovans-got-a-face-turns-out-its-dragon-mans

L’Uomo Dragone, a.k.a. Homo Longii, ha trovato finalmente la sua collocazione nell’intricata vegetazione del nostro albero genealogico.
Il cranio trovato ad Harbin (Cina nordorientale) non appartiene a una specie estinta a sé, come per anni sostenuto da studiosi cinesi, ma ci restituisce le fattezze di un Denisova vissuto circa 146.000 anni fa.
Sinora dei Denisova presenti dalla Siberia all’Indocina e l’Oceania sapevamo tanto da pochi frammenti ossei. Mancava un olotipo.

#dragonman #denisova

The dragon's out of the bag:

#aDNA gives 146,000 y/o unusual sized and shaped skull of #HomoLongi (a.k.a. #DragonMan), originally found in 1933 in #China and rediscovered in 2018, away as actually: #Denisovan!

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/ancient-dragon-man-skull-from-china-isnt-what-we-thought via @LiveScience