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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

More Flores 'Hobbits' described











Scientists have discovered more remains of the strange, small people that once lived on Flores island, Indonesia. The announcement last year detailing a single, partial skeleton caused a sensation when it was claimed to be a human species new to science.

Homo floresiensis, as it was called, was little more than a metre tall and lived 18,000 years ago.
Now, the same team tells Nature journal it has skeletal remains from at least nine of the "Hobbit-like" individuals.


Read the full story at BBC News...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

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