Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based partly on a very large skull found in China. But what is this new species, and how does it help paleoanthropologists understand hominin variation in the Middle Pleistocene epoch about 300,000 to 50,000 years ago?

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories are still being uncovered.

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago which had large heads and immense teeth.

FREE! As recently as 50,000 years ago, a strange species of human wandered eastern Asia. They looked similar to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens except for having huge heads. Scientists have dubbed the likely new species Homo juluensis.