New Species of Human Discovered

Nice discovery, I saw this yesterday on out news program.Really makes you wonder if their are still homo sapiens little different from us still alive somewhere.

Neat. I bet it was cute. Have they only found one skeleton? If so, how do they know it's a new species and not an anomaly?

Ryan, you're the new species of humans!!! lol

Well as the article actually describes there might still be secluded pockets of this offshoot race of homo erectus. However they are not homo sapiens so no one can actually judge whether they might be as intelligent as us, less intelligent, or possibly more. There are so many variables that could play for or against their favour. However the fact that we as a species are more widespread than them suggests that they were not as successful as we were be it for their size, ingenuity, or intelligence.

I heard they found 7 skeletons so far. Really intresting stuff

The hobbitess are real afterall

Thats an amazing discovery, lets hope that more finds follow, just imagine what we may uncover from the past!

well,i told you before....south east asia have a lot of mysteries to uncover...!!

Flores in Indonesia have myths and folklore also as popular stories about a tribe of little people called Ebu Gogo (Discovery Channel). The fitting if not by coincidence by those two points: the past and the present, and the myth and reality usually having a common relative, gives a new dimension or a more reasonable state of research. As the radical discover by this new homo specie so well fitting the legend and the tale, the question of fundamentalization either skepticism either dogma raises a new kind of approach for a bridge between myth and science. Could this indicate myths should be vi... [More]