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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Giant killer...storks?

Giant storks may have fed on real-life hobbits: Bones of small humans and giant birds, found together, tell chilling tale
The fossil remains of what may have been a hobbit-like species of human were discovered in 2003 at the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. In that cave, scientists also unearthed a large number of bird fossils — including 20,000- to 50,000-year-old wing and leg bones from what appears to have been a stork nearly 6 feet tall (1.8 meters).

"From the size of its bones, we initially were expecting a giant raptor, which are commonly found on islands, not a stork," said Hanneke Meijer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

I love this comment by 'News9065': 'I always had an intuitive fear of Big Bird on Sesame Street...now I know why.'

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