Discovery of tiny bone sheds light on mysterious ‘hobbit’ humans
PARIS: The discovery of a tiny arm bone suggests that an ancient human dubbed “hobbits” only shrank down to their diminutive size after they arrived on an Indonesian island a million years ago, scientists said on Tuesday.Much about the pint-sized Homo floresiensis has been shrouded in mystery since the first fossils suggesting their existence were found on the island of Flores in 2003.These tool-using hominins are believed to have been living on the island as recently as 50,000 years ago…
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