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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/07/2010 : 08:03:27
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Actually, this is about a recently discovered neighbor and possible predator of H. floresiensis.
A giant marabou stork has been discovered on an island once home to human-like 'hobbits'.
Fossils of the bird were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores, a place previously famed for the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a small hominin species closely related to modern humans.
The stork may have been capable of hunting and eating juvenile members of this hominin species, say researchers who made the discovery, though there is no direct evidence the birds did so.
The finding, reported in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, also helps explain how prehistoric wildlife adapted to living on islands.
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The more this remarkable island is studied, the more fascinating it becomes.
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and Crypto-Communist! 
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'Hobbits' again.
