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New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia
Radical Rad writes "ABC News is reporting that anthropologists have found the skeletal remains of seven hobbit sized hominids. The population may have been wiped out by a volcanic activity 12000 years ago or according to local legend may have lived up until the 1500's living on in caves and eating food the villagers would leave out for them. Also found were bones of giant lizards and miniature elephants. CBS
also has the story." National Geographic and the BBC have good stories.
clearly there was evolutionary pressure to maintain the same size for all species on the island: giant lizards, pygmy elephants, and small humans.
I dig how they say "Hobbit sized" to capitailize on LOTR's popularity. In '83 they would have said "Ewok sized".
Sweet informative mod.
1. Is there sufficient DNA material at any of the dig sites to allow us to clone a hobbit?
2. Would they make good slaves?
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
everyone knows the world was created 6000 years ago.
jeez.
Guess Frodo, Bilbo and the remaining elves made a wrong turn on the way to the Grey Havens.
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How can anything be hobbit sized? A hobbit is a fictional creature; it has never existed. Now a troll...
Well see, they were originally only out on a three-hour tour, so when their ship wrecked, they had no way of getting back because they hadn't packed the emergency supplies you would normally expect them to have.
Sure, they had one guy who could make a lot of crap out of coconuts, and they always had some celebrity guests drop in for some wacky hijinks, but they never could quite get off that island. Tragic story, really.
Those nasty hominidses. We hates them!
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Among the midget hominid remains in Indonesia, a gold ring was also discovered.
"Antropologists are perplexed as to how a ring found it's way into the hands of a species lacking basic metallurgy or fire. One scientist was quoted as saying 'The precious, er I mean artifact, is a remarkable lovely find. So bright, so beautiful...' He was later heard to remark 'mine, mine, get away!! Filthy little grad students!!'"
Peter Jackson was not available for comment.
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Actually the real explanation, as we all know, is that the devil put those fossils there to lead us astray from the path of righteousness. Don't spout atheist evolution nonsense on here please.
Is Snow White's house anywhere nearby?
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Snow White brought in for questioning related to 7 suspicious deaths. Details at 11.
eskwayrd = m^2c^4
Someone was always after their Lucky Charms.
Proverbs 21:19
Other than that, it's a lovely place to visit.
... in Japan!
Oompa loompa doompety doo ...
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
Oompa loompa doompety da
If you're not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa Doompety do
Doompety do
"The idea of how they got there is still very much in the air."
They could FLY!?
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
7 of them in caves? Hmm, perhaps working?
try sleepy, bashful, dopey, sneezy...
Keep digging, you'll pull up a hot brunette.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
> I have seen functioning humans with heads the size of a grapefruit.
Yes, yes, we've all seen managers too.
Chris Mattern
Of course they're dwarves - there were seven of them.
Uh, duh, the Unix epoch is January 1, 1970. Any universe before that would have required negative time(), which is clearly impossible.
See, Bush wins.
May be the left the island, got to a bigger island, killed everyone that was there, then they slaved people from other even bigger islands and over the years became paranoid that all neighbouring islands wanted to destroy their way of life which they considered superior to all others, so they voted for the village idiot and invaded an island as far far away as they could find , this island happens to have lots coconut oil but this was just a coincidence.
May be after all this some of them realised what the had become and came back to their little island, to enjoy their little lifes and not bother anyone else...and there we found them.