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On Thursday, October 28, 2004, at 08:41 PM, Persephone O'Donnell wrote:
> The remains discovered have been dated as old as 95,000 years and as
> young
> as 13,000 years ago, meaning the Flores man's time overlaps modern
> humans
> by about 40,000 years, but it is not clear whether there was any
> interaction between the two on Flores.
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> Scientists suspect "Flores man" became extinct after a massive volcanic
> eruption on the island around 12,000 years ago, but local folk tales
> suggest the hominids may have still been living on Flores up until the
> Dutch arrived in the 1500s.
Aww S**T! Another one we just missed seeing. Mastodons in the new world
survived until just a few hundred years before the European invasion.
Lots of great animals, and now another species of HUMANS that died just
a few years too early for us. That just makes me so sad.
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