Tourism Rebounds on Island of "Hobbit" Fossil Find
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The discovery of fossils from a race of ancient, hobbit-like human ancestors on the Indonesian island of Flores earlier this year has triggered a small tourism boom, island officials say.
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A Pacific island butterfly makes a comeback, in one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed.
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Were there little people on Flores? A fresh analysis of the fossilised skeleton that sparked the Hobbit controversy, has provided more evidence to support the claim that Homo floresiensis is a new species of hominid, the Guardian reports, and not a diseased human with a shrunken and malformed brain.â¦
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BELGRADE, Aug 18  (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism  or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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New research reveals the Bristol dinosaur lived on small subtropical islands and not in a desert environment as first thought.
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Not long ago, a Saga holiday seemed synonymous with a coachload of ancient aunts with Thermos flasks heading for the coast. Now the company that has made a fortune out of the &quot;grey pound&quot; is
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A fossil resembling the Loch Ness monster has been found on a remote Arctic island. The well-preserved bones belonged to a plesiosaur, a giant marine reptile with a long neck and tail, plump body and legs which evolved into flippers.
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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the first editions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic "The Hobbit" is expected to fetch over 30,000 pounds ($58,560) when it goes up for auction next month.
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What is billed as one of the world's largest free-standing stalactites is set to become a major tourist attraction in Ireland after authorities finally gave the go-ahead to develop the cave where it hangs.
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THE DISCOVERY: A University of Pittsburgh geology student on a field trip stumbles across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature that lived about 300 million years ago.
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An analysis of the wrist bones of the tiny prehistoric human dubbed the &quot;Hobbit&quot; bolsters the theory that it was a new species of human and not some aberration of modern man, a study released Thursday said.
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Sydney: The newly discovered remains of a previously unknown species of miniature human in the Indonesian island of Flores, 600 kilometres east of Bali, by Australian and Indonesian scientists, are being hailed as the most significant scientific find of
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BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a "lost world" of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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SYDNEY - Following the spectacular discovery of a new species of human on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia, scientists said yesterday they expect to discover more species of hominoids on neighbouring islands.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.