Long feet offer clues to mystery of ‘hobbits’

Bone structure supports theory that small hominids were ‘nothing like us,’ research team concludes

By John Noble Wilford / The Bulletin
May 29, 2009

The extinct hominids commonly known as “hobbits” may have been small of body and brain, but their feet were exceptionally long, and they were flat.

Scientists, completing the first detailed analysis of the hominid’s foot bones, say the findings bolster their....

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