Scientists have found skeletons of a hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child (See pictures). The tiny humans, who had skulls about the size of grapefruits, lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago.
Hmmm...there's a Yumiko joke in here somewhere but I'm going to be mature about this and let it go.
But anyway, this discovery is pretty crazy. Scientests believe that these "hobbits" actually interacted with "modern day humans" (homo-erectus) and were quite intellegent despite only having a brain 1/3 the mass of people today. If human cloning really gets going, we could see these little guys running our gas stations in as little as 50 years!
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