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More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species
GogglesPisano writes "CNN.com reports that scientists digging in a remote Indonesian cave have uncovered a jaw bone that they say adds more evidence that a tiny prehistoric Hobbit-like species once existed." From the article: "The discovery of a jaw bone, to be reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, represents the ninth individual belonging to a group believed to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in a wet cave on the island of Flores in the eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia."
I, for one, welcome our new hobbit-sized overlords!
The scientist who found the jawbone became increasingly irritable while hunching in a corner stroking the jawbone and repeating the words, "My...preciousssssss".
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Why couldn't there be a small adult size? We have dwarfed people alive today functioning in society without issue. And since we're talking L.O.T.R. here, weren't the body doubles for the hobbits all Indonesian?
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