Giant Stork fossil found on Hobbit Island!

Artist’s impression of Giant Stork next to a Homo floresiensis hobbit
Artist’s impression of Giant Stork next to a Homo floresiensis hobbit

A giant marabou stork has been discovered on an island once home to human-like ‘hobbits’.

Fossils of the bird were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores, a place previously famed for the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a small hominin species closely related to modern humans.

The stork may have been capable of hunting and eating juvenile members of this hominin species, say researchers who made the discovery, though there is no direct evidence the birds did so.

The finding, reported in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, also helps explain how prehistoric wildlife adapted to living on islands.

Source: Giant fossil bird found on ‘hobbit’ island of Flores [BBC].

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CW Staff
CW Staff

In the late 80s I started investigating UFOs and crop circles and joined the CCCS (Centre for Crop Circle Studies) and a local group researching strange sightings and reports along the south coast of Dorset (UK). In the early ’90s I started my own research group called SPS (Strange Phenomena Studies), this was renamed in 2004 to Cryptoworld.

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