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VIDEO: Ancient Little People Found?
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Watch as a scientist uncovers tiny human bones in a tropical island cave, in what could be a major discovery.


From: National Geographic News
Ancient Bones of Small Humans Discovered in Palau
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Thousands of human bones have been discovered on the Pacific island, some of which are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small stature, scientists have announced.


From: National Geographic News
Outsider wins battle of anti-heroesOlivier awards surprise as Chiwetel Ejiofor beats Shakespearean rivals to best actor prize
From: guardian.co.uk home | guardian.co.uk
History of the world to be told in 100 museum pieces WHEN the novelist H G Wells wrote his history of the world, he kept it short. The writer Julian Barnes’s humorous attempt at the same subject was contained in a mere 10½ chapters.
From: UK News from Times Online
Soviet rule is back at Bolshoi ballet He ruled the world's most famous ballet company with an iron fist for three decades until he was ousted in a revolt against his authoritarian style.
From: World News from Times Online
'Hobbit' hominids were dwarf cretins, say scientists (AFP)

Graphic on the fossilised remains of Indonesia's AFP - Anthropologists have fired another salvo in a feud about diminutive "hobbit" people whose fossilised remains were found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island four years ago.



From: Yahoo! News: Science News
"Hobbit" Humans Were Diseased Cretins, Study Suggests
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Hobbit-like humans discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 may have been severely malnourished modern humans, a controversial new study suggests.


From: National Geographic News
'10,000 B.C.': Mammoth disappointmentThere are bad movies. There are hack directors. But with 10,000 B.C., a prehistoric epic that deserves extinction, Roland Emmerich enters a whole new tar pit of crapitude.
From: TheStar.com - Movies
New twist in 'Hobbit' debateScientists say 18,000-year- old remains are not a new species, but modern humans with a growth disorder.
From: BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition
Australian researchers cast doubt 'Hobbit' fossil was new speciesA diminutive humanoid fossil found on a remote island in Indonesia was likely a human with miniature features due to a nutritional deficiency, researchers in Australia said in the latest study in an ongoing scientific debate over the small human-like skeletal remains.
From: CBC | Top Stories News
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