Sentences with phrase «floresiensis nicknamed»

This is the home to the extinct Homo floresiensis nicknamed the «Flores man».

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After researchers discovered H. floresiensis, which they nicknamed the hobbit, in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, they concluded that its skeletal remains were as young as 11,000 years old.

Called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the «hobbit» people, this species found in Indonesia rewrites the scientific story of how humans migrated out of Africa and came to populate the whole world.

First described in 2004 from fossils discovered at Liang Bua, a cave on the island of Flores, the meter - tall Homo floresiensis was instantly nicknamed after J.R.R. Tolkien's diminutive characters.

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

Nicknamed hobbit people, Homo floresiensis «caught the field off guard — they were the black swan of paleoanthropology,» says Bill Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York.

Scientists clash, too, on the Homo floresiensis, nicknamed «hobbit.»