Amazing new "hobbit" find

The Homo Floresiensis hobbits, that is.

Archaeologists nicknamed the fossils “hobbits” because they were short. Turns out they’ve got much more in common- it’s outright eerie.

Link to hobbity hobbits

Is there an article? You only linked to a picture.

Ahem… look more closely.

What a precious picture!

You guys don’t have enough to do.

Ah, took a minute but I got it. Good one!

Very clever.

It doesn’t *settle *the matter of whose humor is more nerdy (Tolkien fans or archæeologists), but it certainly brings the question back to the forefront…

Adorable indeed!

Beautiful. Wish I’d a had that pic when I taught anthropology.

However … I’m sure everyone else on here is thinking the same thing I’m thinking so I won’t even say it.

Besides small size, there’s another coincidence. Hobbits had extraordinarily long feet, in fact longer than any other member of our branch of the primate tree.