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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds


Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.

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