Butchered rhino suggests humans were in the Philippines 700,000 years ago

Excavation proves early humans colonised the area hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously believed

The discovery of a butchered rhino has led scientists to conclude early humans were in the Philippines as far back as 700,000 years ago.

Dozens of human-made stone artefacts and tools, alongside the clearly bludgeoned and eaten remains of a rhino, were discovered in a clay bed in on Luzon, the largest and most northerly island in the Philippines.