An artist’s impression of a group Homo floresiensis with a recently killed stegodont (Stegodon florensis insularis)
MAURICIO ANTON/CIENTZIA PHOTOGRAPHY
Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the “hobbit”-like humans who hunted them.
Until about 50,000 years ago, Homo floresiensisone meter tall, it thrived on the island of Flores in the South Pacific by consuming the flesh of dwarf pachyderms called stegodons.
Researchers initially thought they were small hominins – whose bones they were find…
