He's right here!
Posted on 12/08/2004 3:25:23 PM PST by swilhelm73
There have been stories of "brontosaurs" too. If something is still living, there must be fresh remains somewhere. Even droppings from predators should show something.
Homo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is a newly described species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and recent survival, thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans (Homo sapiens) on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Seven skeletons and associated stone tools were discovered on Flores in 2003.Flores has been described (in the journal Nature) as "a kind of Lost World", where archaic animals, elsewhere long extinct, had evolved into giant and dwarf forms through allopatric speciation. The island had dwarf elephants (a species of Stegodon, the recent ancestor of the Indian Elephant) and giant lizards akin to the Komodo dragon, as well as H. floresiensis, which can be considered a species of dwarf human. The discoverers have called members of the diminutive species hobbits, after J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional race of roughly the same height. In the island's mythology there were common references to Ebu Gogo a small furry man.
Hobbit ping...
A live one was captured 3 weeks ago, so they probably survived until 30 year ago. Ain't science wunnerful!
I won't make any comparisons between "small furry creatures with indistinguishable genders" and certain famous lefties.
OMIGAWD, they captured Dr. Ruth Westheimer!
He's right here!
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"Confusticate and bebother these Indonesian palaeoanthropologists!" he said aloud.
Thanks for the ping. We covered this at length on previous threads.
However, he said Professor Jacob had signed an agreement to return all the bones by January 1.
Some how I don't think so.
Let's see, the village people were full of it when they spoke of these people, but then they found remains.
Now those same villagers claim to have captured one for a time, but once again they are full of it.
Seems to me the scientists are the ones who are full of it. Ego that is.
These people are pygmies.
Jesus! But thanks!
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