In the spirit of the new "News and Current Events" threads, I am offering up what I consider to be one of the most important and underdiscussed news stories of the Year/Decade!!!!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...resiensis.html
"Scientists have determined that the first skeleton they found belongs to a species of human completely new to science. Named **** floresiensis, after the island on which it was found, the tiny human has also been dubbed by dig workers as the "hobbit," after the tiny creatures from the Lord of the Rings books.""
This is discovery completly changes science text books. They found miniture-full grown adult skeletans. This is a completly new species of **** and lived at the SAME time as modern **** Sapiens.
In another version of this story, (which I will try to find again), they talk about the fact that as recently as 1,300 years ago (!) before the Dutch arrived, the natives told stories about the little cave people.
Does anyone else think that this is HUGE? Or am I just a little bit of a science freak? :LOL
Victorian
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...resiensis.html
"Scientists have determined that the first skeleton they found belongs to a species of human completely new to science. Named **** floresiensis, after the island on which it was found, the tiny human has also been dubbed by dig workers as the "hobbit," after the tiny creatures from the Lord of the Rings books.""
This is discovery completly changes science text books. They found miniture-full grown adult skeletans. This is a completly new species of **** and lived at the SAME time as modern **** Sapiens.
In another version of this story, (which I will try to find again), they talk about the fact that as recently as 1,300 years ago (!) before the Dutch arrived, the natives told stories about the little cave people.
Does anyone else think that this is HUGE? Or am I just a little bit of a science freak? :LOL
Victorian