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a fragment left of the upper arm bone called the humerus belonging to a diminutive extinct human species called homo floresiensis that dates to about 700 000 years ago and was discovered at the mata menge site on the indonesian island of flores is shown at the same scale as the humerus of a later homo floresiensis fossil dating to 60 000 years ago from the liang bua cave site in flores in this handout image released on august 6 2024 this indicates that this earlier homo floresiensis individual estimated to have had a body height of just 1 meter was smaller than the later one with an estimated body height of 1 06 meters photo reuters

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Discovery of tiny arm bone sheds light on Indonesia’s extinct ‘Hobbit’ people

” When researchers excavated fossilized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches (88 mm) long at a site called Mata

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