Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past - Ars Technica ^10.9%

Ars Technica - By Kiona N. Smith - 7/9/2026, 10:29 PM

Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.5% - Negativity Bias 12.5% - Overconfidence Bias 11.8%

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, and giant rats. Based on the presence of hominin and pygmy elephant bones in the same layers of cave sediment, it originally looked like the... more