Artist’s impression of a group of Homo floresiensis With a freshly killed stegodon (Stegodon floriensis insularis)
Mauricio Anton/Scientific Image Library
Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to a decline in the numbers of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the hobbit-like humans who hunted them.
Until about 50 thousand years ago, Homo floresiensisIt was about a meter long, and thrived on the South Pacific island of Flores by eating meat from dwarf leather mammals called stegodon.
Researchers originally thought it was small hominins – whose bones were discovered…