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Paleoanthropologist Explains Real Life “Hobbits”

Fossils revealed a species of early humans in Indonesia, descendants of homo erectus, and nicknamed them “hobbits” due to their 3-foot stature. #WIRED #TechSupport Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Follow WIRED: Instagram ►► Twitter ►► Facebook ►► Tik…

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Fossils revealed a species of early humans in Indonesia, descendants of homo erectus, and nicknamed them “hobbits” due to their 3-foot stature.

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31 Comments

  1. @deeps6979

    April 17, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    I will also accept Neadersmall as a missed opportunity.

    • @slowazzd2165

      April 17, 2024 at 3:57 pm

      That one’s even better

    • @jaydavidrn82

      April 18, 2024 at 10:19 am

      meh its not as good. the idea is that Neanderthal kind of has tall at the end

    • @machineagevoodoo2106

      April 23, 2024 at 8:51 am

      ​@@jaydavidrn82neandertall and neandersmall? Come on, that’s better!

    • @jaydavidrn82

      April 23, 2024 at 9:08 am

      @@machineagevoodoo2106 I get that it looks better up front I just think it doesn’t hold up to analysis as well 🤔 😂

  2. @serajacob8278

    April 17, 2024 at 3:28 pm

    Sarcasm and infotainment 😊

  3. @serajacob8278

    April 17, 2024 at 3:29 pm

    Fricking genius 😊

  4. @user-db6wv4rd9m

    April 17, 2024 at 4:11 pm

    Good pun 🤣

  5. @protectsummer

    April 17, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Not rodents of unusual size!

    • @warmgreytenpercent

      April 17, 2024 at 5:16 pm

      AND komodo dragons?? I would not survive

    • @andieluke1366

      April 17, 2024 at 9:55 pm

      Was looking for the Princess Bride reference down in the comments and was not disappointed.

    • @TheMilkMan8008

      April 18, 2024 at 11:04 am

      Capybara are pretty cute. So are pacaranas, beavers, and porcupines. Look up a pacarana and them look up the extinct giant pacarana. I want to squish one.

    • @lafoonxiii5311

      April 22, 2024 at 12:39 am

      I don’t believe they exist

  6. @harshstudy488

    April 17, 2024 at 7:03 pm

    Man just imagine if any of them had a horn like rhinos 😮 ..

    Also once ai models like sora become soo good and people make 18+ version of sora v5 maybe we can get a video of homosapiens and other human species together 😮😮

  7. @blueferal8626

    April 17, 2024 at 11:37 pm

    Komodo dragons hunted em 🤡

  8. @user-tb4ig7qh9b

    April 18, 2024 at 6:36 am

    I think with your age you most disbelieve thoeries does not exists

    • @tonydai782

      April 18, 2024 at 8:44 am

      It’s almost like he’s spent years researching while you’ve spent years typing on your keyboard “researching”

    • @TheMilkMan8008

      April 18, 2024 at 11:06 am

      Scientists today debate how evolution happens and why evolution happens, but nobody is debating IF evolution happens. Evolution is a scientific theory, that is a functional explination of observed natural phenomena that is backed by all the best evidence that we have. There are theories about evolution, theories concerning evolution, and even theories within evolution. Evolution itself is a fact. Just like gravity and the shape of the Earth. Evolution itself is a fact, and nobody is arguing that today. This isn’t the 1700s or the 1950s Christian America. The evidence is all there. What else is “just a theory and therefore not a fact” in your mind? Well, there is the germ theory of disease that says germs make us sick. Cell theory says our body is made out of cells. Theory of gravity, heleocentric theory, theory of general relativity, special theory of relativity, kinetic theory of gases, atomic theory, dual inheritance theory. Need I go on? A theory in science explains a fundamental fact we can observe.

    • @BoshyG

      April 18, 2024 at 2:41 pm

      your comment is illegible, please try again.

    • @rowox

      April 26, 2024 at 6:15 am

      ​@@tonydai782there’s no way the OP has spent more than five minutes on a keyboard 😂

  9. @MasonVeil

    April 20, 2024 at 7:06 am

    Religion once tried to teach me that some little guy made a boat and put all the animals in it. And here is the proof! A pile of sticks on a hill. I laughed so hard. And yet even they had more evidence than these scientists making entire histories of humanity based on 2 or 3 bones.

    • @angeloalvarez5520

      April 25, 2024 at 9:42 am

      Why not Google how many fossils of this species they found, Before jumping to conclusions? Maybe they made a few assumptions, but clearly there were hobbit people there, and island dwarfism is definitely interested as well

    • @angeloalvarez5520

      April 25, 2024 at 9:47 am

      Apparently they found about 9 individuals which would add up to a lot more bones than you think. Archaeologists also look at other things, like where they were found and they study their teeth to get an idea of their diet. You’d probably find this stuff interesting if you didn’t immediately dismiss it

  10. @My-cat-is-staring-at-you

    April 21, 2024 at 2:49 am

    The Hobbits lived in a pulp novel.

  11. @neelkanthgarg8670

    April 21, 2024 at 11:41 am

    Now komodo dragons makes sense , they might not be that big, to those short guys, they might as well have been.

  12. @SchardtCinematic

    April 22, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    They could have been Oompa Loompas too. Lol

  13. @tobubiify

    April 22, 2024 at 10:27 pm

    Oh THAT’S why they were called dragons.
    Maybe humans were just as big as komodo back in the day

  14. @poseidon9792

    April 22, 2024 at 10:38 pm

    That’s a Terraformar

  15. @uuh4yj43

    April 24, 2024 at 2:58 am

    ok i get island dwarfism but what if you get trapped in a island with josh hutcherson?

  16. @KevinLopez-lb9qo

    April 24, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    Who is this guy

  17. @randomsandwichian

    April 26, 2024 at 5:27 pm

    We’re all just Midanderthals

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