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."

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Re:How do they know how old it is? Carbon dating?

[The Bungi]

I mean live penguins have been carbon dated at 8,000 years old

That's a nice link. Hallellujah brother! Of course the author of this incisive essay fails to take into account the fact that there is enough evidence of simple geological strata location to debunk any claim that dinosaurs lived only 20,000 years ago.

First it was "the dinosaurs didn't really exist!" then it was "the dinosaur bones were put there to test our faith!" and now it's "the dinosaurs are not really that old!"

Pathetic.

Re:How do they know how old it is? Carbon dating?

[MightyMartian]

Strata locations are dated just like anything else, since nobody alive today was around millions of years ago. Often, different dating methods provide contradictory results. How's that for scientifically "proving" how old something is?

How about "proving" your claim with some citations.