" A partial skeleton of a three-foot (one-meter)-tall hominid discovered in 2003 in an Indonesian cave and nicknamed "the Hobbit" is probably a new, dwarf species of human, said a study.

A team of scientists reached the conclusion after analyzing the skull of the estimated 18,000 year-old skeleton, one of several unearthed two years ago on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. "

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