There may be living ones too . Nail in the coffin for god and
adam and eve

the umpah-lumpas of charlie & the chocolate factory fame?
could be.... could be...

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Tiny new species of human found

October 28, 2004 11:48 IST
Last Updated: October 28, 2004 16:18 IST

Press Trust of India

In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in recent times,
scientists have found fossil skeletons of a tiny human that grew no
larger than a three-year-old modern child, a report said on Thursday.

The hobbit-like humans, who had skulls about the size of grapefruits,
lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in
Indonesia as recently as 13,000 years ago, National Geographic News
reported.

Australian and Indonesian researchers, it said, discovered bones of
the miniature humans in a cave on Flores, an island midway between
Asia and Australia.

The tiny human is believed to be an extinct Asian offshoot of Homo
erectus, the forerunners of Homo sapiens, as modern man is called.

But, he should be classified as a separate species of Homo, as he was
entirely different from either Homo erectus or Homo sapiens, a report
in the British science journal Nature said.

Scientists have determined that the first skeleton they found belongs
to a species of human completely new to science.

Named Homo 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 book, the report in the
National Geographic News said.

The original skeleton, a female, was just a metre tall, weighed about
25 kilograms and was around 30 years old at the time of her death
18,000 years ago.

The skeleton, the report said, was found in the same sediment deposits
on Flores that have also been found to contain stone tools and the
bones of dwarf elephants, giant rodents and Komodo dragons.

Homo floresienses has been described as one of the "most spectacular
discoveries in paleoanthropology in half a century" and the most
extreme human ever discovered.

More here  :

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html