Creepy; attached like an Impaled Vampire !
''' A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that lived alongside Homo neanderthalensis... '''
[ '' From a morphological point of view," writes a team led by geochronologist Christophe Falguères of the Institute Of Human Paleontology in France.
The Petralona hominin forms part of a distinct and more primitive group than Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and the new age estimate provides further support for the coexistence of this population alongside the evolving Neanderthal lineage in the later Middle Pleistocene of Europe '' ]
