'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 06:37
in Paleontology & Archaeology
University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest palaeoanthropological mysteries in recent history - that fossilised skeletons resembling a mythical 'hobbit' creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain...