Homo floresiensis
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Homo floresiensis, also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit", is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000
Homo Florensiensis MGL 95216 P5030051 white
Liang Bua Cave, where the specimens were discovered
Skeleton at the Natural History Museum, London
LB1 (left) vs. microcephalic human (right)
Insular dwarfism
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Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's range is limited to a small environment, pri
Homo floresiensis
…have arrived on the island around 1.27–1 million years ago. It is now generally accepted that the small body size of H. floresiensis is the result of insular dwarfism, a common phenomenon among island animals. It has historically been debated whether H. floresiensis was the dwarfed descendant of Javanese Homo erectus…
Skeletons of the extinct Palaeoloxodon falconeri, native to Sicily and Malta, it is one of the smallest known species of dwarf elephant. Adult males measured about one meter (3.3 ft) in shoulder height and weighed about 250 kg (550 lb). Females were smaller.
Europasaurus skull
Rapetosaurus BW
Lirainosaurus