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Smallest human species ‘Flores Hobbits’ were even smaller than thought, study finds

Homo floresiensis lived on Indonesia’s Flores island as recently as 50,000 years ago

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2024

Meet the biggest and most bizarre skink ever found in Australia. It became extinct 47,000 years ago

Many of the giant marsupials and birds that roamed ancient Australia had vanished by 40,000 years ago. While the duration and drivers of these extinctions remain debated, fossils clearly show the continent lost a host of creatures which would have dwarfed humans, such as short-faced kangaroos, diprotodons, “thunder birds” and…

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2023