JAKARTA, Indonesia - fossil a giant Stork was discovered on a remote Indonesian island which has been home to many creatures extreme - size humanoid tiny "hobbits" dwarf lizards and rats elephant known in the world.
Hanneke Meijer, Rokus authors on writes to the Zoological Society Magazine December issue Linnean Stork marabout who lived 20 000 to 50 000 years ago thigh bones indicate it amounted to approximately 6 feet (180 cm) tall and weighs up to 35 pounds (16 kg).
It seems mainly focused on the ground, they wrote.
The bones were found the excavations of the Liang Bua cave in the West of the island of Flores, at a depth of approximately 15 feet (4.7 metres).
Flores, located on the shore is the Indonesia, has never been connected to another island or continental, shaping the evolution of historic fauna, with many small hot slightly animals grown more elsewhere on the planet and large mammal becomes smaller, said Colin Groves, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Australia was not related to the study, citing the so-called "island rule" in biology.
No carnivorous mammals, birds and reptiles face less competition for food, accounting for some of their massive size.
Even today, rats over 16 inches (40 cm) from head to body found on Flores. There are also the home of Komodo dragons, larger lizards on Earth, grow to be up to 10 feet (3 meters) long, weighing up to 150 pounds (70 kg).
At the same time, food shortages, compared on the continent, may have contributed smaller elephants and others.
Most famous, the bones of a 4-foot (120-centimeter) - high high human species commonly known as the 'hobbit', or Homo floresiensis, which survived until approximately 17,000 years ago were also found on the island.
Meijer, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Netherlands and as a result, by the National Centre for archaeological research in Jakarta, noted that the Stork "must have towers on the tiny floresiensis h.."
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