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March 10. 2008 - Palau - Possible history making find as tiny human bones are uncovered from underneath a "flow stone."

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Devilman69 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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291 days 21 hours ago...

maybe he found the missing link....lol

rafey : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

rafey

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291 days 21 hours ago...

it alarms me that my mouth is watering at the mention of another man`s name.

dembones : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

dembones

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291 days 20 hours ago...

Maybe it was a sacrificial midget cave. You can heave one of those guys pretty far.

Neferati : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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291 days 20 hours ago...

I bet he got a lot of shit in high school cuz of name. =/

KUDZU : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

KUDZU

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291 days 19 hours ago...

le royal with cheese.

2real : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

2real

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291 days 17 hours ago...

I remember seeing a clip on NOVA (A PBS documentary series) about these "hobbits" It is believed that they arrived on the islands normal, but over time they evolved into a smaller form to conserve energy because of the type of food in their surroundings.

nastc1 : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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291 days 16 hours ago...

Would be awesome if they also found evidence of a little Donut-hole making factory.

nastc1 : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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291 days 14 hours ago...

LMAO KUDZU...did you think of that because the guys name is burger?...mmm I could eat a burger right now...::daydreams of a burger::

quatermass : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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290 days 9 hours ago...

poor frodo, he didnt make it in time and the shire bought it!
on a more serious side,
they`ve just found.......
the umpaalumpaa homeland!

Ingenuity321 : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

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287 days 12 hours ago...

Maybe they all died off because Noah didn`t have any room for them on his ark. :)

AMWhy : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

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287 days 12 hours ago...

This video was interesting, but most of the comments are poor :(

GB! : LVL 65: VP 5: said:

GB!

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287 days 11 hours ago...

^ you`re not helping

thatkoreanguy : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

thatkoreanguy

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287 days 11 hours ago...

hooray, let`s destroy a 3000 year old geologic formation in the name of science....

rudi23 : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

rudi23

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287 days 9 hours ago...

this could prove LOTR is real

neon neophyte : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

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287 days 9 hours ago...

2008/03/12

AN EXTINCT population of small-bodied humans has been found on the Palau group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, a University of Witswatersrand researcher said yesterday.

Palaeoanthropologist Professor Lee Berger discovered the fossils while on holiday in Palau in 2006.

“We were on a kayak excursion when a guide asked me if I wanted to see a cave with some old bones. When I saw a tiny face, part of a fossil skull, I instinctively knew that they were of major importance,” said Berger.

He and an international team of scientists led by South African researchers were then funded by the National Geographic Society to conduct further investigations into whether a so-called “Hobbit” species had really existed.

He said the fossils were from 1400 to 3000 years old and came from two burial caves in Palau’s Rock Islands.

They had some, but not all, of the features found in the controversial Homo floresiensis fossils found on the island of Flores in Indonesia in 2004.

The Homo floresiensis fossils, also known as the “Hobbit”, have been at the centre of a scientific debate on whether the tiny skeletal remains represent a new species of human, or whether their size was merely the result of some type of genetic disorder such as microcephaly.

“The Palauen fossils exhibit a surprising number of traits that were originally used to describe the ‘Hobbit’,” Berger said.

“This includes a small body size, relatively large teeth, small faces and reduced chins.”

He said the Palauen cave in which the original fossils were found was literally filled with individual skeletons and, when excavated, the sand itself was practically made up of ground human bone.

“In a one-metre square by 50cm deep test pit, we recovered more than 1200 fragments of human beings – it was remarkable.

“They (the humans) were just over a metre tall. One foot bone is almost the same size as the same foot bone of the famous Little Foot skeleton in Sterkfontein, and that’s very small.” Little Foot is an early human ancestor dating from around 2.5 million years ago.

Berger said the brains of the Palauen humans were thought to be small, at the very bottom of, or even below modern human variations.

However they were not as small as the brains of the Hobbits.

Berger explained that at the time of the species’ existence, no large terrestrial animals were around as a food source, so it was likely that early Palauens had to survive on near-shore marine resources, causing a great deal of dietary stress.

The second cave had revealed an equally large cache of bones, indicating to Berger that the islands might be full of surprises.

“Who knows what is out there? It just demonstrates the great need for more exploration,” he said.


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