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I think the first thing obviously that
strikes you when you see her is that
she's very short.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Very short.
>> Um what are we talking 1 meter?
>> Yeah. Uh this curtain is about a meters
and 6 cm tall.
>> So about 3 and 1/2 ft.
>> Yeah. Just like all of our team when saw
this for the first time uh we thought
there is a belong to the child.
But then after we able to to clean up
all the dirt, you can see all the the
the mers already erupted.
>> It's got wisdom teeth.
>> Yes. Yes. There is already permanent
teeth since
>> Yeah. I mean the mers are the adult mers
are there.
>> Yeah. Already there. Three of them.
>> Yeah. As soon as you look closely, this
is 100% an adult.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> An adult, but the size of a child. And
that was only the first surprise.
>> The legs, they're quite short.
>> Yeah, the the leg is uh only slightly
longer than than the their arm here.
>> Whereas with us
>> Yeah. With us, it's different.
>> Our legs are really long.
>> Really long. Yeah. Compared compared to
upper limb, I think.
>> And also if you have a look on the feet.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. The feet is about 70% of the
length of the fab
>> which is huge because on me that would
be
>> about that length.
>> Yeah, it's true. Because so many unique
features not seen in other species. We
place this skeleton as a new species and
we named the skeleton uh homopenses.
This new species of human was a
revelation.
Named Homo Floresenszis after the
island. They quickly became known to
many as the hobbits after the heroes
from the Lord of the Rings books who
were also small as adults.
They likely arrived entirely by chance.
Initially, perhaps a few individuals
swept here on Driftwood from the islands
to the north more than 700,000
years ago.