BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Australian and Indonesian scientists have discovered a species of tiny human beings who lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores 18,000 years ago.

    The UK magazine Nature reports that skeletal remains show that the hominins, nicknamed by some scientists as 'hobbits', were only one metre tall, had a brain one third the size of that of modern humans, and lived on an isolated island long after Homo sapiens had migrated through the South Pacific region, China Radio International reported Friday.

    Researchers have so far found eight individual hobbit remains.

    They have been classified as a new species of human called Flores and may be the most important discovery of palaeoanthropology for the last fifty years. Enditem

    (CRIENGLISH.com)