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We studied tracks and traces of leopard tortoises for comparison, and used these to estimate that the trackmaker at our site was as much as 106cm long, at least 50 per cent longer than the largest recorded leopard tortoises.Many species of giant tortoises on islands have become extinct in the last few centuries. ....
A million-year-old skull just found in China has turned out to be a Homo erectus missing link that researchers say was a pretty successful big game hunter. ....
Homo floresiensis the holotype of which stood ~106 cm tall, weighed ~27.5 kg, and had a brain ~426 cm3 is the taxonomic name given to hominin remains discovered in Late Pleistocene deposits at Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. This species, and the skeletal and cultural remains attributed to it, has been the source of considerable scientific and public interest as well as intense debate since its discovery was first announced. A major implication of the discovery of this extinct taxon is that modern humans (Homo sapiens) once shared this planet with Neandertals and Denisovans as well as H. floresiensis, which also walked bipedally and made and used stone tools but had a brain size, body proportions, and other primitive features not seen within the genus Homo for the past ~1.5 million years. Prior to ~50 thousand years ago human biological diversity was significantly greater than it is presently when the only hominins remaining are members of a single speci ....