A species of human thought have gone extinct thousands of years ago may still be around, a scientist has claimed. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the 'hobbit' because it stood at just 3ft 7ins tall, vanished some 50,000 years ago when modern humans arrived on their doorstep.
The little hominid lived on the island of Flores, which is now part of Indonesia, starting 700,000 years ago, meaning it co-existed on the planet with home sapiens and other species such as the Neanderthal, reports the Mirror.
Homo floresiensis was a small-brained, large-footed toolmaker but it is not known where the species evolved from. And now one anthropologist has claimed the 'hobbit' could actually be alive and well today.
Gregory Forth, who worked at Alberta University before retiring, has argued that sightings of an 'ape-man' on Flores might be proof the creature still exists.
