'Hobbit' islanders given species claim boost
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Brain strain Another salvo has been fired in the row over whether the remains of the Indonesian "Hobbit" people actually represent a separate species, or just malformed Homo sapiens.â¦
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Text of report by Radio New Zealand International on 17 September  [Newsreader] Residents of the remote Pitcairn Island are a step closer to the outside world with the introduction of a host of modern communications.
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Australia's island state of Tasmania risks losing its status as a &quot;Noah's Ark&quot; for rare species with the discovery that foxes have probably begun breeding there, environmentalists have warned.
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A massive palm tree discovered on the island of Madagascar represents a new genus and species, researchers say.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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How interesting it is that scientists have discovered another species of human - an 18,000-year-old skeleton named Homo floresiensis that has been described as &quot;hobbit-sized.
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Archeologists are at odds over the discovery of the skeleton of a dwarf-sized human species on the remote island of Flores, which is said could rewrite the history of human evolution.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland  - What are the words used by  indigenous peoples in the Arctic for "hornet," "robin," "elk,"  "barn owl" or "salmon?" If you don't know, you're not alone.
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Australian scientists who helped discover a species of tiny humans nicknamed Hobbits have been hailed for making the second most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be understated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores , announced in the
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Pristine forests offer the rare primates a much healthier diet, an anthropologist says, in a finding that may shape future protection efforts on the African island nation of Madagascar.
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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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The island nation's government is receiving new support from an unusual political group.
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[Hollywood News]: London, Dec 18 : A team of London researchers, who have done a tongue in cheek psychological analysis of the one of the most intriguing characters in JRR Tolkien&#39;s epic &#39;Lord of the Rings,&#39; Gollum, say that not only was he a schizophrenic
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The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.
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Long live the real Bilbo Baggins, the first Little People of the World, Homo floresiensis and Homo sapien archeologists Michael Morwood, Peter Brown and Professor Soejono!
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Dwarf animals that lived on islands thousands of years ago evolved to their tiny size due to a lack of predators and competitors, not just because they were too big for their habitats, researchers said on Monday.