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Quotation of the Day: Skull May Point to New Kind of Ancient Human

“It’s very rare to find a fossil like this, with a face in good condition. You dream of finding this stuff.”

JOHN HAWKS, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaking about the discovery of a massive skull that is at least 140,000 years old. Scientists said it could be a new species of ancient human.