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Indonesia's 'hobbits' may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says
The team also examined 4,500 rodent bones from Liang Bua and found no charring.
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Extinct hobbits probably lived off what Komodo dragons left behind, suggesting they weren’t as smart as we thought
Flores suggests.Rather than having the skills to hunt the local species of elephants, as it was presumed they did, the ...
Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...
An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...
Liang Bua cave, purported cut marks on elephant bones and charred remains from other animals led some researchers to propose ...
Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...
For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia.
✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...
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