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The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home

  • Written by Nick Scroxton, Research Fellow, Palaeoclimate, National University of Ireland Maynooth
The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home_Homo floresiensis_ skull.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more than a million years living on the isolated volcanic island of Flores, Indonesia,...

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