Tiny ancient humans lived on Flores alongside Komodo dragons. One remarkable theory suggests their ancestors reached the isolated island accidentally—floating there on vegetation. #HomoFloresiensis #AncientHumans #AncientMysteries #HumanEvolution #Archaeology Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/flores-hobbits-0019157
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‘Hobbits’ walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds
The pelvis of Homo floresiensis was more human-like than earlier studies suggested, according to a new study of the species’ hip bones. The finding adds detail about how these small human relatives walked and deepens the debate over their origins. Homo floresiensis, often called the “hobbit,” lived on the Indonesian island of Flores...
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‘Hobbits’ walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds
The pelvis of Homo floresiensis was more human-like than earlier studies suggested, according to a new study of…
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‘Hobbits’ walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds
The pelvis of Homo floresiensis was more human-like than earlier studies suggested, according to a new study of…
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Archaic human parents cared for helpless babies over 1 million years ago, study finds
Human babies need years of care before they become independent. New research suggests this long period of helpless infancy did not begin with modern humans. Instead, it likely stretches back more than one million years to early members of the human family...
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Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, and did not control fire, fossil study finds
A fresh study is changing the story of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human relative known as the “hobbit.” Scientists now think these small hominins did not hunt dwarf elephants or use fire as often as once believed. Instead, they likely survived by scavenging the remains of animals first eaten by Komodo dragons..
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/580522/ Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says #Éire #hobbits #HomoErectus #HomoFloresiensis #IE #Indonesia #Ireland #KomodoDragons #LiangBua #Science
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Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says
Indonesia’s ancient “hobbits” may have endured not as daring hunters but as scavengers that capitalized on whatever food they could find, according t…
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A new study of 3,100+ Stegodon bones at Liang Bua finds Komodo dragons, not “hobbits,” had first crack at the meat. No fire, no hunting weapons, just risky scavenging. #Paleoanthropology #HomoFloresiensis #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-a-goat-fed-to-a-komodo-dragon
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https://www.europesays.com/pt/441121/ Hobbits indonésios comeriam sobras de dragões-de-komodo – 04/07/2026 – Ciência #Alemanha #Animais #Antropologia #asia #bichos #Ciência #CiênciaETecnologia #CiênciaEtecnologia #EstadosUnidos #EvoluçãoHumana #folha #hobbits #HomoFloresiensis #Indonésia #PesquisaCientífica #Portugal #PT #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Technology #Tecnologia #universidade
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New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time
For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins — the lineage leading to modern humans — gradually grew larger over…
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Drought may have driven the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the “Hobbit”
According to a new multidisciplinary study, a long-term decline in rainfall in the Indonesian island of Flores may have played a central role in the disappearance of Homo floresiensis, otherwise known as the “hobbit,” a small-bodied archaic human species...
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An article published in the journal "Communications Earth & Environment" reports a study that offers a possible explanation for the extinction of the species Homo floresiensis, the hominins whose fossil remains were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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"On the other hand, 'how can you prove something doesn’t exist? You can’t,' Tocheri says.
Finding a physical specimen first isn’t the only way to make a discovery, according to Forth. 'For me as an anthropologist, evidence that Flores Islanders have actually seen living creatures that closely correspond to their descriptions of ‘ape-men’, and therefore Homo floresiensis, is the best among several explanations for what they told me,' he says.
Forth isn’t equating the unearthing of H. floresiensis bones with a definite conclusion about the hobbits still existing. But he’s not ruling out the possibility.
Such a discovery in the genus Homo 'would be extraordinary. Not only would it contradict the current orthodoxy; it would also overturn current theories of hominin evolution and raise questions about what it means to be ‘human’—or ‘not quite human,’' Forth says. The finding would also demonstrate to people in the academic world that 'ordinary folk' have knowledge of local species, which scientists—who flit in and out of an area for a specific study—often do not, he adds.
Since the hobbit was discovered, the field of paleoanthropology has seen rapid progress, such as the discovery of the species Homo naledi of South Africa and the Siberian Denisovans, who may be closely related to Neanderthals. Scientists have also sequenced Neanderthal DNA fragments from bones, and identified Neanderthal and Denisovan genetic codes in modern humans—which means the three species once interbred.
The closest any former human species comes to still being alive is by being a part of us. So the idea that an entirely extinct human is still living clandestinely among us is shocking, Tocheri says. He agrees with Forth that it would be amazing to find the descendants of these people—considered gone 500 centuries or so ago—still populating a small pocket on Flores.Before finding the hobbit, researchers looked at human origins in a slightly more linear way. They knew some species likely branched off from earlier relatives—an effect of evolutionary pressures like climate change—in different times and places. For example, H. sapiens evolved mainly from Homo heidelbergensis, but so did Homo neanderthalis. Various species living at the same time may have met and interbred as well. We know that our own species has some Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. All this simultaneous evolution and intermingling makes the traditional 'family tree' more of an interconnected bush, Tocheri explains."
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Rätsel um Ende der „Hobbit-Menschen“ gelöst? Zunehmende Trockenheit könnte des Aussterben des Homo floresiensis beschleunigt haben. #Hobbits #Homofloresiensis #Flores #Menschheitsgeschichte #Fruehmensch
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Climate Change Played Key Role in Extinction of Homo floresiensis https://www.byteseu.com/1612884/ #aridification #Cave #Climate #ClimateChange #drought #elephant #extinction #Fossil #GlobalWarming #Hominin #Homo #HomoFloresiensis #human #Indonesia #IslandOfFlores #Isotope #LiangBua #Megadrought #Paleoclimate #Proboscidea #PygmyElephant #Stalagmite #Stegodon #StegodonFlorensisInsularis #Teeth
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Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor
A set of ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline…
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New study reveals archaic ‘hobbits’ were even smaller than previously thought
Recent fossil discoveries on the Indonesian island of Flores have revealed that the ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as “hobbits” due to their small stature, were even tinier than previously thought...
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#paleontology #paleoanthropology #fossils #hominins #HomoFloresiensis
An article published in the journal "Nature Communications" reports a study on new fossils belonging to the hominins called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed hobbits found at the site of Mata Menge, on the island of Flores. A team of researchers examined these new fossils dated to about 700,000 years ago and concluded that the species Homo floresiensis could descend from Asian Homo erectus.
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„Hobbit“-Vorfahre war winzig. Vorläufer des Homo floresiensis hatte den kleinsten Armknochen der Menschheitsgeschichte. #Homofloresiensis #Hobbit #Menschheitsgeschichte #Anthropologie #Flores #Fruehmensch
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‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island | Evolution | The Guardian
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Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of #HomoFloresiensis -
Scientists have created a digital model of the skull of a Homo floresiensis, a human ancestor that lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The model reveals new details about the brain and facial features of the species, also known as the hobbit. The model also helps to compare the hobbit with other human relatives, such as Neanderthals and modern humans.
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Für die Vorfahren von Homo sapiens führte der Weg zum Zweibeiner über verschlungene Pfade.#Homininen #Laetoli #Australopithecusafarensis #Australopithecussediba #Ardipithecusramidus #Homofloresiensis #Homosapiens #Paranthropusrobustus #aufrechterGang #Menschwerdung #Steinzeit #Evolution #Biologie #Paläoanthropologie #Anthropologie #ErdeUmwelt #Kultur
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