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Topic: homo-floresiensis

A Komodo dragon (file photograph)

Friday, 7/3, 06:22 PM

The hobbits' menu: a new study says Flores' tiny humans scavenged Komodo dragon kills

The 'hobbits' of Flores — the tiny extinct humans known to science as Homo floresiensis — may not have been the fire-wielding big-game hunters some researchers imagined.
A new study argues they were scavengers, dining on carcasses left behind by Komodo dragons rather than hunting giant prey themselves.

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