The skull was discovered in July 2007 in Ølstykke, Denmark, while digging was being performed for replacement of sewer pipes. First thought to be a horse, no other remains that belong to the skull have been found at the site of discovery. Carbon 14 dating at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen has shown that the creature lived between 1200 AD and 1280 AD. Furthermore, the skull was found above the old pipes, whose age suggests that it wasn’t buried until after 1900 ― Perhaps to conceal the secret behind its existence someone stored it for ages and later deliberately buried it.
The skull is one and a half times larger than the size of a regular human cranium. The eye sockets are extremely large and it has a very smooth surface which seems to point to it being adapted to a cold climate. The relative eye size suggests it was a nocturnal creature, something that lived underground, or on a planet orbiting a remote or dim star.
Its discovery in 2007 did not make headlines and remained largely ignored by science until 2010. The researchers who examined the skull merely concluded that “Although resembling a mammal, certain features make it impossible to fit the animal into Linnaean taxonomy”.
Article Copyright © Anton Spangenberg
