Hobbits Existed!
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:01 am
Haha crazy stuff! 
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10 ... index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
"Flores has been described (in Nature magazine) 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 variety of Stegodon) and giant lizards akin to Komodo dragons, as well as Homo floresiensis?a kind of dwarf human. The discoverers have informally referred to the diminutive species as a hobbit, after J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional race of roughly the same height."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10 ... index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
"Flores has been described (in Nature magazine) 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 variety of Stegodon) and giant lizards akin to Komodo dragons, as well as Homo floresiensis?a kind of dwarf human. The discoverers have informally referred to the diminutive species as a hobbit, after J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional race of roughly the same height."
*wants a pet hobbit*