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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!
How do we know it wasn't just a 12,000 year old circus midget?
The hobbits of our present time are called Little People. What are these scientists so raffed up about? If we normal humans exist today, then the ancestors of the little people existed way back then.
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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