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Scientists: “Island dwarfing” shrank them.

The “Hobbit” skeletons, found in Indonesia, probably belonged to their own species, according to two new papers in Nature. Researchers have argued heatedly over the origins of the 3-foot-tall, 65-pound people, who roamed the island of Flores 8,000 years ago.

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