Hobbits or orang pendek ?
Posted on Sunday, 27 February, 2005 | 1 comment
We will never know her name - indeed, we will never know whether she even had a name - but when her remains were unearthed last year in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, she caused the kind of stir that we normally associate with Hollywood film stars.She died in complete obscurity around 18,000 years ago, only to be catapulted into glittering fame by a chance discovery.
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#1 Posted by Loaded_Revolver on 27 February, 2005, 15:41Kinda gives a little more creedance to Gigantopithicus surviving, perhaps evolving, and being Sasquatch.
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