´Hobbit was a smart little human` say scientists
"The team had found the remains of seven tiny people, including one nearly complete skull of a 30-year-old woman. They dubbed the fossils homo floresiensis. "
"The scientific community took to calling it the Hobbit after the diminutive characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's books. LB1, a female, measures at just 1 meter in height and has some surprisingly advanced features which negate an earlier theory that it was a diseased human being. "
Click here for the Article, from EarthTimes.org
5 comments:
Ok, so this has nothing to do with this post (which by the way, is really interesting), but I just noticed your link to Tomato Nation.
I LOVE Tomato Nation. I thought I was the only person I knew who reads it. Sweet.
I actually got the link from you! I happened upon it one day when reading your blog and couldn't stop reading. She is so funny. I was literally laughing out loud. Very little writing makes me laugh aloud.
Oh. Well then I'm glad I could help. :)
I laugh aloud at her writing too. I like when she talks about her cats, because I relate.
You should check out the other sites she's affiliated with.
She's the co editor-in-cheif of www.televisionwithoutpity.com, which is recaps (very funny ones) of TV shows and also message boards. Half the TV shows I really like, I don't even really watch -- I just go there and read the recap.
The other co-editor of that site runs www.hissyfit.com which is just a funny blog.
And finally -- check out www.thisisnotover.com, which they helped create. It's a good political blog where I get lots of the links I use for the things I write.
Back to the munchkins.... there is a National Geographic site on the little hobbit people. It has basically the same information but it has some pictures as well.... so here ya go...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/photogalleries/homo_floresiensis_1/index.html
Thanks KC. Wow, those skulls are small.
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