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- Anna Mae
- Jul 2, 2016
- 1 min read
There’s Now More Evidence That A Tiny Hobbit-Like Species Of Humans Really Existed
''Back in 2004, scientists found some fossils of ancient humans on a small island called Flores, in Indonesia.
What was really exciting was that these humans were tiny compared to every known human species – just 1 metre tall as adults.
That’s smaller than any of our ancestors, all the way back to the African ape Australopithecus 3 million years ago. They were found in a place called Liang Bua. Dating techniques put them at between 50,000 and 100,000 years old.
The little humans were named Homo floresiensis – “Flores man” – but they were popularly known as hobbits...''
by Tom Chivers
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