www.terradaily.com/reports/Hobbits_Are_A_New_Human_Species_999.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
Hobbits Are A New Human Species
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November 25, 2009 at 9:46 am
FAIL
niÂgÂgers aren’t human
November 25, 2009 at 9:49 am
OHNOYOUDITUNT!
November 25, 2009 at 6:51 pm
That bottom pic could have so many captions
November 25, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Nova just finished an interesting series (NOVA: Becoming Human) and had a segment on Hobbits.
November 30, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Needs just one: “YOU GONNA GIT RAEP’D”
November 30, 2009 at 6:58 pm
NOVA is fucking great. I need to watch more.
November 30, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I’m not one to give much credence to myths, but this find really does make you think there might be some truth behind of the stories about “little people” from different cultures.
November 30, 2009 at 7:51 pm
And these things were supposed to be contemporaries of modern humans in or around at least one island group in Indonesia.I have to wonder who or what made them go the way of the Dodo.
November 30, 2009 at 8:10 pm
reboot, not unless we find these guys all over the place. So far they are just in one spot.
November 30, 2009 at 8:44 pm
@fracked again
Technically, I agree with you; right now there is no evidence hard evidence they lived anywhere but Flores.
But consider this: Flores was not connected to the mainland during the last glaciation. Therefore, these guys (or their ancestors) must have arrived there by boat. Which says a huge amount of their level of technological development. One of the bones has been dated to 74,000 BC and some of the tools have been dated to 98,000 BC. That’s about the time that homo sapiens were just starting to leave Africa. Its hard to believe that a sea-faring species with thousands of years of head start on modern humans just sat there on an island.
November 30, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Yeah, but the island they’re on is full of “pygmy” versions of other animals.
November 30, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Didn’t they discover this 3 years ago?
November 30, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Ahh! Kill it with fire!
December 1, 2009 at 12:01 am
Holy crap! Where’s my shotgun???