When Hobbits Were Real

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Its discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but it’s often called “the hobbit” for its short stature and oddly proportioned feet. And it’s been at the center of a major controversy in the field ever since. Was it its own species? Or was it really just one of us? Or, could it even have descended from a whole lineage of hominins that we don’t even know about?
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@eons 4 года назад

We have a small update on this topic: A researcher who works at the hobbit site of Liang Bua reached out to us on social media to point out that the evidence for Homo floresiensis using fire comes from papers published before the dating of the site was revised. More recent research says that the evidence for fire in the cave comes from a time period after the hobbits were gone and suggests that modern humans were responsible. There also appears to be no evidence of burned Stegodon bones.

@helmaschine1885 4 года назад

@@MrTotosaurus yeah, at this point the video is spreading misinformation and should be taken down and revised.

@Person12216 4 года назад

Although I agree with the both of you, the videos are overall interesting

@-touya_todoroki 4 года назад

Imagin cloneing a human species but then someone has to voluntarily be a surget for such humans...

@sjappie5034 4 года назад

@@helmaschine1885 I don't completely agree because remaking videos are very expensive. However, some videos can be reupload with corrected "TEXT" flashing across the screen. Not the most professional, but I would respect this much more. Otherwise, a pinned comment is kind of okay for now, until this channel gets more funding

@cripdyke 4 года назад

@@helmaschine1885 Nope. Don't take it down. Do we ban "walking with dinosaurs" because it's outdated? It is a product of its moment and the humans who made it. Science learns more and gets closer to the truth in increments over time. Science documentaries should do the same. To take down every documentary that is erroneous in any relevant detail is a form of historical erasure. Pinning a note is a great way to handle an error discovered so soon after the making of the video. If another error is revealed by research published next year, it won't even merit a note. That's how it works.

@Wizard4k 5 лет назад

Bruh imagine being a hobbit that live on an island where you eat tiny elephants and get hunted by dragons

@dfk2199 4 года назад

Fun Fact: did you know on the island of Komodo there is no such thing as human rights there is only "animal rights"

@thestudentofficial5483 4 года назад

@@dfk2199 TF you're talking about

@binayadhikari3828 4 года назад

I am stoned.

@Juan-mj3bm 4 года назад

Lmao

@AverchenkoMiroslav 4 года назад

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

@JoshuaFagan 5 лет назад

The "Missing Link": Fake Hobbits and Direwolves: Real You guys have taught me so much.

@Albert_Herring 5 лет назад

You mean wargs*

@BradShreds 5 лет назад

Ceratosaurus Studios isn’t the warg the person who can connect and “slip into the skin” of the animal?

@ezramalzbender7934 5 лет назад

@@BradShreds I think you are referring to wargs from a song of ice and fire, he is referring to wargs from the lord of the rings

@lukaseldenrust2637 5 лет назад

PJ yeah, and I don’t think they have a video on that... maybe Monstrum will?

@mrrodriguez2947 4 года назад

@@BradShreds in one sense yes very much indeed, but I think he was referring to Tolkien's Wargs,who some say were inspired by dire wolves....I could be completely wrong though 😂

@112048112048 3 года назад

4:04 - "It's possible that the hobbits might have been hunted by the dragons" has got to be the most Tolkien thing I've ever heard in a paleontology documentary.

@brianmessemer2973 5 лет назад

“Dragons??? Nonsense! There hasn’t been dragons in these parts for a thousand years!” 🐉

@ivarbrouwer197 5 лет назад

Brian Messemer - if you become smaller, big animals might indeed start to look like dragons...

@transnewt 5 лет назад

So... Lizards look like dragons to roaches and ants?

@HighLordSythen 5 лет назад

@@transnewt Komo dragons look gargantuan to ants.

@bobkob 5 лет назад

Dinorex 109 yes,

@elktheindianspotteddeer1331 5 лет назад

And how any animals have went missing for thousands or years in the folasle record then just showed up to say hi were still alive latter (many)

@carlito8582 4 года назад

"When hobbits were real" Me looking at my 4"11 friend:" they still are..."

@johnnyjoestar9723 4 года назад

Holy crap you freaking killed them dude

@joegrizzly999 4 года назад

These were like 3 feet

@joedartonthefenderbass 4 года назад

That's not that short

@granttube6881 4 года назад

@@joedartonthefenderbass thats pretty short to human standards

@joedartonthefenderbass 4 года назад

@@granttube6881 short but not hobbit short

@brianmessemer2973 5 лет назад

“Fool of a Took.” 🧙‍♂️

@ivoryghost7080 3 года назад

“Throw your self in next time and rid us of your stupidity “

@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo 3 года назад

A fool, but an honest fool he remains

@cadenrolland5250 5 лет назад

So there were hobbits, dragons, giant birds, and volcanoes? Makes Lord of the Rings look like a documentary!

@timetochronicle 5 лет назад

Tolkien actually intended the Lord of the Rings to be a fictional history of the Earth. The idea was borne out of an initial project to make an independent "English mythology". Over time, a lot of that was lost, but a lot of presentation of the Lord of the Rings was on the idea that Samwise's family "preserved" the Red Book (which compiled The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings) and that in modern day, someone translated it

@cdemr 4 года назад

And it was not that long ago

@destree6348 4 года назад

This is why I feel like our imaginations aren't far from reality

@simpleyeteffective5863 4 года назад

@Håkan Bråkan Kråkan thats why the lord of the rings was filmed in new zealand... haha

@howiseeit5326 4 года назад

What do u mean like? You mean "is".

@phoenixx8963 5 лет назад

Could you imagine being a three feet tall, running in the wilderness while being hunted by a 10ft long Komodo Dragon. Good lord, how did these little guys survive at all.

@adamaunya69 2 года назад

Hiding in small cave where the predator couldn't reach

@56th. Год назад

They must have been expert runners

@flowzerr4550 Год назад

Not for long!

@76rjackson Год назад

They spent a lot of time in trees according to legend. They could run along the large lower branches and ambush prey by dropping down on them from above. Very fierce for their size, again, according to legend.

@pravashi_382 Год назад

That's the thing, they didn't 💀😅

@coolfrog8777 3 года назад

I love how we draw extinct animals all majestic and pretty, and then we just draw other humans like old drawings of gnomes.

@lococomrade3488 2 года назад

Why our lil hobbit friend so close to that epic battle between two dragons and a bird-demon?

@chadangeles3856 2 года назад

Whats wrong with that

@Secter84 Год назад

@@lococomrade3488 that picture bothered me so much. And then they kept showing it over and over again 🤦🏼‍♂️ smh It looked liked a miniature, naked version of "the weekend", not our long lost extinct ancestor.

@JubioHDX Год назад

@@Secter84 thats what they were, we didnt even evolve FROM them, they arent a extinct ancestor, just a shorter smaller cousin. They lived at the same time as Homo Sapiens, and theyre just one of the many we lived alongside (we are truly only unique today, there were at least a dozen of human-like apes throughout time that split off from us). They were just smaller as a product of their environment. The art is never supposed to be exact anyway, theyre just artist renditions to help people who have trouble visualizing things theyve never seen before in life (over 3% of people cannot physically create a mental picture in their head, and thats alot more people than it sounds like when theres nearly 8billion of us, nearly 240 million, nearly twice the entire population of mexico) The only real difference they may have had other than scale differenced is they were probably still hairier too, except thats a weird think to try and include when we cant tell anyway. Even modern humans have the same amount of hairs as a chimpanzee to this day, it just all grows to different lengths than a modern chimp. We had alot more in common with the earlier hominins than you probably think.

@helldronez 10 месяцев назад

@@Secter84LMAOOO the weekend 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@danstiver9135 5 лет назад

The giant Komodo dragons should be called “Smaugs”

@CloudsGirl7 5 лет назад

"I am king under the mountain!" "No, *I* am!" Probably what they were arguing about in the artist's rendering...

@slappy8941 5 лет назад

Smaug had wings though; Glaurung the Golden was wingless.

@zekezzekekan2144 5 лет назад

@@slappy8941 lazy too

@Zeithri 5 лет назад

Looked more like a Brohug to me.

@lashalursmanashvili162 5 лет назад

And neanderthals should called dwarfs

@EverythingScience 5 лет назад

As a short person, I think I've found my ancestors...

@HN-kr1nf 5 лет назад

even more so if you're from south-east asia

@gigibritannia 5 лет назад

@@HN-kr1nf I am. Lol

@HN-kr1nf 5 лет назад

@@gigibritannia 😂

@shawtyslikeamelody7595 4 года назад

Indo short gang rise up😔

@namaske2594 4 года назад

5'5" boys put your hands up

@MT-gz2tt 5 лет назад

"Experts can't figure out if it was a pathological case or a new species " All right then keep your secrets...

@SGGCREATIVES 5 лет назад

lol

@greatskytrollantidrama4473 5 лет назад

"Little people of the forrest" in most histories and myths.

@lylachristopherson865 5 лет назад

You mean as an hallucination due to chemical abuse, right?? LOL. Leprechauns!!!

@yourstruly4817 5 лет назад

And catchy tunes that stick in your head for over 20 years

@greatskytrollantidrama4473 5 лет назад

@@lylachristopherson865 these tiny folk are all over the Ancient map. From fairies and pixies, leprechauns and fae, seeli and unseeli, all over, and every single one. Is magically delicious 😉

@greatskytrollantidrama4473 5 лет назад

@@yourstruly4817🎵 Frosted Leprechauns are magically delicious🎵🤗

@zekezzekekan2144 5 лет назад

Yeah the town I grew up instead in the woods that there was a town where 50 dwarfs lived in tiny houses. I thought they were kidding but I went there one day and it exists. You guys best believe I went there the next Halloween as Willow.

@Skeloperch 5 лет назад

NGL, when he said "the last time a hominin with a brain THAT small was around", I thought he was going to finish it with "was when you were born". I hang around too many young people.

@mellane4608 4 года назад

There are several of those running for president right now.

@cyberash3000 4 года назад

@@mellane4608 and the orange man baby himself :)

@vladimirlagos2688 5 лет назад

I once read a really interesting idea in an article about Homo floresiensis were the author speculated that as their brain reduced in size to adapt to their small island, they apparently also lost the ability to innovate. This because their tools which span around a hundred thousand years don't seem to have ever changed. It was almost as if they were manufacturing them mechanically from memory and failing to search for ways to improve them. The hypothesis seems a little harsh (maybe their environment was stable enough or their tools versatile enough that they could afford to forego changes in design) but the thought that human intelligence could devolve to a more primitive stage under the right environmental pressures is fascinating, even if a bit heretical.

@CrankyPantss 5 лет назад

Vladimir Lagos The island wasn't huge, and if part of it was volcanically active, that would make their accessible area even less. I don't know if the climate of the island would have varied much when they were alive. Maybe, because they were on such a condensed space that didn't change much, the need to try to innovate to adapt just wasn't there?

@teergeret 5 лет назад

Maybe the innovation requires lots of exchange between different populations and the isolated Island was home to just very few individuals who didn't come across any other humans to exchange ideas. I mean, even today, the more isolated a population the more basic their tools and way of life seem to be from our point of view. What I'm trying to say is, if you have a group of 100 people who never meet anyone outside that group and stay at the same place, the potential for innovation is obviously much smaller than that of a similar group surrounded by other groups who live in different environments that require different adaptations and who meet occasionally.

@CrankyPantss 5 лет назад

Gre Gre Also, if the small isolated group was very busy just trying to survive, they wouldn’t have had the luxury of extra time to sit around the campfire pondering changes. The population might not have ever gotten big enough for that.

@randompheidoleminor3011 5 лет назад

Like how ants and termites instinctively build nests. Neat.

@priscillafalzirolli3833 5 лет назад

100,000 years seems very little time for change in such a small population. We're probably talking about no more than a few million individuals throughout this entire time. Take a million human children and see if any of them can find any way to improve or even fathom how to produce said tools.

@ladykoiwolfe 5 лет назад

These little cousins are probably my favorite hominids. Thank you for covering them. It's been awhile since I delved into their story and it's come a long way since then.

@nickheckman 5 лет назад

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to.

@susie9893 4 года назад

My favorite line from that book!

@aspektx 4 года назад

You might end up on an island in Southeast Asia.

@OviraptorFan 5 лет назад

Can you guys discuss the evolution of mollusks in general? It would be quite interesting. Like why clams became sessile

@momon969 5 лет назад

You made me google a word, and I learned something. Thanks!

@OviraptorFan 5 лет назад

Momon no problem!

@Purple_Purple_Box 5 лет назад

I for one am very interested in the ancestor of mollusks.

@eddiepopcopter5902 5 лет назад

I’ve been wanting a molluscs vid too

@john.james.110 5 лет назад

"And it looks like there were changes in the island's climate and volcanic eruptions around 50,000 years ago, which might explain why this species disappeared." That's a nice way of saying "volcanoes probably killed them."

@reptilianskin 5 лет назад

John Lisowski after Frodo tossed the one ring in, the volcano erupted and killed them all. No eagles saved them.

@LuisAldamiz 5 лет назад

He said 50,000 years ago, not being very specific anyhow: all the region is strongly volcanic and people usually survive those catastrophes. I strongly suspect it's a wishful thinking pretext not to face the obvious: we killed them. Those dates are roughly the dates of migration to Australia (probably before 60.000 but close enough), we didn't let any other Homo species survive anywhere, sometimes we even killed our own kin, either directly or indirectly by pushing them to extreme conditions. Even the brainy and strong Neanderthals could not resist us in the long run...

@r-t9266 5 лет назад

@@LuisAldamiz We haven't exactly stopped killing our own kin.

@john.james.110 5 лет назад

@@LuisAldamiz Thank you. I'll correct it now. And yeah, homo sapiens do seem to be the cause of most of our relatives dying off.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 5 лет назад

Luis Aldamiz well we actually mated with Neanderthals which is why everyone outside of Africa shares DNA with them that Africans do not

@lilmama6689 4 года назад

I was so glad when this hobbit was found. It meant all the stories from my grandmother about menehune or “Hawaiian hobbits” were in fact real. I felt that way again when researchers were able to prove that the giant moai 🗿 on Rapanui walked in place. My grandmother always said they walked there baby.

@gpl992 3 года назад

Nice!

@gpl992 3 года назад

As a Moluccan from the nearby island of AMBON I feel like a partial descendent of Homo Floriensis aka Mehehune.

@lilmama6689 3 года назад

@@gpl992 Wow. I’m on the shorter side and have always wondered about the possibility of intermingling between the two.

@Eowyn3Pride 3 года назад

🥰

@my_other_side473 2 года назад

@@lilmama6689 Hawaiian ancestors the Austronesians actually came from Southeast Asia. So maybe that's where the oral story came from, and the story were brought to Hawaii by their descendants. About the Hobbit like creatures.

@robinsonray6766 5 лет назад

Imagine one of these small people drifting or sailing into Australia by accident, and running into megalania!

@genghiskhan6809 5 лет назад

That's like meeting Glaurung.

@horse14t 5 лет назад

That would be a cool movie!

@thoughtfuldevil6069 5 лет назад

Every time he says "LB-1" I hear "Obi Wan." H E L L O T H E R E

@zddxddyddw 5 лет назад

General Kenobi!

@darthgorthaur258 5 лет назад

"that's no elephant....it's a stegadon"

@yourstruly4817 5 лет назад

@@zddxddyddw You are a bold one!

@LoLotov 4 года назад

So uncivilized.

@culwin 4 года назад

A name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

@timsullivan4566 5 лет назад

We KNEW it! The Precious told us Hobbitses are still around ...SNEAKING!

@susie9893 4 года назад

Actually I saw a few documentaries some years back about a small group of hikers who were, supposedly, attacked by some small humanoid primates whilst hiking thru the jungle of an Indonesian island (can't remember the name); when the 1 survivor managed to return to civilization he was charged with murder because no one believed his story and he'd been trying to prove it ever since. I found it, hmm, interesting, that no reference to this story was made particularly since tales of these creatures are common in local native lore and THEY certainly believe those creatures are out there. I'm not saying I believe it, don't really care either way, but it is interesting in the light of THIS finding I think

@kentgil2526 3 года назад

@@susie9893 stop snorting glue

@az397 3 года назад

@@kentgil2526 be nicer

@MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI-1 5 лет назад

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”~ J.R.R. Tolkien

@briggasnax8575 5 лет назад

God I've never heard or read such an excellent and quotable opening to a book ever.

@ObligedUniform 5 лет назад

Was gonna comment that XD. Nice

@crashcalvin7050 5 лет назад

Am I wrong in saying its the greatest fantasy epic of all time?

@rileydinkleman1022 5 лет назад

CrashCalvin idk man, song of ice and fire is amazing. It has that nice mix of medieval fantasy, less high fantasy. Tolkien is a beautiful writer though.

@TerrariaGolem 5 лет назад

@@briggasnax8575 Read the series man. It's worth it. It's what inspired modern fantasy. From D&D to Skyrim & even more unique stories like Darksouls. JRR Tolkien is a legend. My other favorite legend is HP Lovecraft

@audrey4506 5 лет назад

I always knew lord of the rings was a scientific documentary

@limiv5272 5 лет назад

And who was the actual eye of Sauron?

@Friendship1nmillion 5 лет назад

🙄 . *WHAT ARE THE CHANCES* that someone's put a mixture of little human skulls and chimp bones together in a cave and is watching this video having a laugh? 🤔💭->😅🙈👨‍⚖

@ashleyludwig6281 4 года назад

Stories, myths and random things Smr amen to that

@adamaunya69 4 года назад

@@Friendship1nmillion well you should publish a scientific article about your theory then,maybe you're right and gonna win a lot of noble prize for that

@aniisnotok5099 3 года назад

This is very interesting. In Solomon Islands, the people from one of the provinces have legends passed down from generations that when they first came to the islands where they currently live, there was a group of small hairy people who already lived there. The stories say that they fought and eventually overcame these people. In another province located far away, they also have stories of small hairy people that exist in their islands and possibly still do. They're known as Kakamora and they were featured in Disney's Moana.

@TM686K 3 года назад

I was just about to mention this! That perhaps this race was not only endemic to Flores Island. In Kiribati where I'm from there are stories of the first people to arrive in the islands and they met a people who were "dark skinned, short, hairy and with large floppy ears" for which they clashed and intermingled at various times until they became a uniform population. Samoan, Tongan and Hawaiian mythology have stories of them too, they called them the Menehune/Meneuli who lived in caves.

@aniisnotok5099 3 года назад

@@TM686K woah, that's fascinating. I thought they were only in our legends in the Solomons. Perhaps they're not just legends, but actual events in history passed down through generations

@TM686K 3 года назад

@@aniisnotok5099 Very much possible. It cannot be coincidental. In most Polynesian and as a whole Pacific Island mythology, there is usually a similar structure of epochs in time: The Age of Spirits The Age of Half Spirits Half Humans The Age of Humans My theory (and I do stress my theory) is that this could be a metaphorical interpretation of the Human Taiwanese/Melanesian Migration when they first came into contact with Autochthonous races in the Pacific (other hominids like hobbits and possibly giants) who they met with, eventually interbred with them until they lastly became extinct with modern day Pacific Islanders carrying remnants of them in their DNA.

@VidAudioJojo 3 года назад

8:28 Homo luzonensis was found not "on a remote island in Southeast Asia" but, in fact, on the main island of the Philippines: Luzon, the planet's 15th largest island. The dig site, however, is located in a rural area in the northeast section of the island.

@ra_alf9467 Год назад

The name is literally there, "Luzon"ensis

@VidAudioJojo Год назад

The point was that describing Luzon as a ". . .REMOTE island in Southeast Asia" is simply wrong on many levels. For one thing, how can Luzon be described as "remote" when in the year Homo luzonensis was announced the island of Luzon already had about 50 million Facebook and internet users?

@JCarlosCS1221 Год назад

@@VidAudioJojo Luzon is remote from a hominid's perspective: you can't get there without a boat or a ship, that may mean that hominids were seafaring way before we thought they could.

@cortd5273 5 лет назад

Can you please make a episode on the evolution of the Brain? From how clumps of specialized cells in prehistoric fish evolve to become our complex brain in the modern time.

@ObligedUniform 5 лет назад

When Hobbits were real. Or- Concerning Hobbits.

@zekezzekekan2144 5 лет назад

Well even this video is not saying hobbits where ever real.

@iqbalarsyah215 5 лет назад

they missed the chance

@zekezzekekan2144 5 лет назад

@@iqbalarsyah215 maybe they didn't have enough time?

@brentgreeff1115 4 года назад

He called them "creatures" - If they were still around Vice would be going crazy about this.

@animelinkup2529 4 года назад

*Vsauce music starts playing*

@Sciencerely 5 лет назад

As a human biologist and researcher, I think it's funny to think about how very different species of the familiy Hominidae might have lived together in the past. To give an example, at roughly the same time Homo erectus dispersed in different parts of asia, the so-called Gigantopithecus existed. This extinct species of the genus ape is said to be roughly 3 m (9.8 ft) high and weighing as much as 540-600 kg (1190-1320 lb). They existed to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago and might have looked similar to gorillas or orang utans (would love to make a video about them). Just imaging walking around with your tribe, discovering a 3 m ape!

@stanisawkaminski887 5 лет назад

They did a video on Gigantopithecus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1qW256pUdYg.html

@OfficialDenzy 2 года назад

KING KONG

@for.tax.reasons 5 лет назад

1:53 I love that they use the squid as a transition complete with dramatic whoosh

@cintronproductions9430 5 лет назад

Being killed by a stork would be a very embarassing death. 😂

@mynamehasspacesinit8687 5 лет назад

The very thing that brought you into this world can take you out of it as well.

@jr2904 5 лет назад

@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 hahahaha, same thing crossed my mind. My mom always told me, she brought me into the world and she can take me out.

@bri1085 4 года назад

Babies are actually kidnapped hobbits 🤯

@BaronSaturday66 4 года назад

My sister was killed by a sugar glider.

@bri1085 4 года назад

@@BaronSaturday66 are you serious?

@Rob-xf4tv 5 лет назад

I'm obsessed with any episode in PBS Eons about human evolutionary progress. Thank you so much for this episode :D

@hollyodii5969 5 лет назад

This episode could easily be a couple hours longer! Completely fascinating!

@saaulooo 5 лет назад

After that i will eat my second breakfast.

@jade410 5 лет назад

Mingo Dupal hmm don’t forget elevenses

@Albert_Herring 5 лет назад

knock knock* "Dwalin, at you service."

@Juniorb38 5 лет назад

There was a smaller species found this year in the Philippines which has been named Homo Luzonensis. The sapien “evolutionary bush” is fascinating Edit: Just saw that part of the video. This channel is amazing and covers many points of Human Evolution that others miss. Great Work guys!

@Beryllahawk 5 лет назад

I really like the image used of the "hobbit" running away from the scary bird. His expression is so sassy!

@phaedrus000 5 лет назад

3:36 OK that dude doesn't look nearly scared enough considering what's chasing him.

@BonaparteBardithion 5 лет назад

Because he knows what's waiting for the bird when he gets to safety. He's the bait.

@darthgorthaur258 5 лет назад

I think I'd just be praying the dragons didn't notice me an kept fighting each other instead tbh...

@LuxinNocte 5 лет назад

1:54 "an unexpected discovery" I see what you did there

@dustyprater7884 5 лет назад

An island near the Equator, "the Middle of the Earth" with Hobbits and Dragons (Komodo Dragons). I'm just saying where are the elves and dwarves? Keep up the good work PBS Eons!!!😁

@miguelmontenegro3520 5 лет назад

There are mountains inside the Amazon and ruins too... Im not saing It is mirkwood, but It is mirkwood

@samsunguser3148 4 года назад

I think the race of Elves and Dwarves failed. The Elves went to the Havens to the Undying Lands and the Dwarves mined very deep and kept to themselves. oof?

@miguelmontenegro3520 4 года назад

@@samsunguser3148 The elven race isnt made to be a middle Earth dweler. They stayed for so long because they were the noblest of the races there. But! in the next realm they were the lowest of Peoples. Like the middle men in ME.

@samsunguser3148 4 года назад

@@miguelmontenegro3520 ye

@LoLotov 4 года назад

Homo erectus: tall, graceful, firstborn of the truly human Homo neanderthalensis: short, stocky, underground dwelling craftsmen Found em!

@shinygamer3424 5 лет назад

1:41 Yep. That's me. You may be wondering how I got into this situation.

@buraksimsek7264 4 года назад

hahahahaaaaa hunting after shiny gligars? lol

@danukil7703 5 лет назад

A new Eons video! Thank you for always making such interesting and thought-provoking videos :) Do you think you will ever do a video on the lions of Europe (ex. cave lions)?

@THLott 5 лет назад

Thank you guys from PBS EONS for bringing all these amazing discoveries to us. I'm currently working on a project (a novel) in which sapiens, floresiensis, neanderthals and denisovans live together...in present times... let's see how it goes.

@jtktomb8598 5 лет назад

cool idea

@THLott 5 лет назад

@@jtktomb8598 thx!

@taricanarain8453 4 года назад

The Sapiens probably enslaved the other hominins.

@smoothvirus 5 лет назад

Makes me wonder a bit about the reports of the "Orang Pendek" on the nearby island of Sumatra.

@andrewmazza5184 5 лет назад

Great Episode! Now some suggestions for future episodes -Titanoboa -Australian Megafauna -Diprotodon -marsupial Lion -Giant Kangaroos -Megalania *tbh I feel each of these could and deserve to get their own separate episodes -Domestication of Dogs? (“How Dogs became mans best friend”)

@danielsinger6032 5 лет назад

In my opinion among the best content on RU-vid. Fascinating. Keep up the great work!

@proviliax 4 года назад

1:42 _record scratch_ _freeze_ *Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.*

@az397 3 года назад

did click, wasn't deceived. *You deserve GOLD*

@guilmon182 5 лет назад

"Alright, then. Keep your secrets."

@Liz-sc3np 4 года назад

guilmon182 I didn’t want to know your secrets anyways so whatever

@blight1934 5 лет назад

YES finally ! we got a hobbit episode!

@fartoocritical9409 5 лет назад

Yes! Thank you for uploading this video! I can't believe the hobbits were covered on this channel! I'm not much of an archaeologist but i do find research on h. floresensis and h. neaderthalis to be fascinating! The mere thought that other species of "humans" were once walking the planet is crazy to me. Great video! Now if a video on the scimitar cats (genus homotherium) could get uploaded, my wishlist for this channel would be complete. The scimitar cats are so under-appreciated.

@Woodswalker96 5 лет назад

"When hobbits were real, and lived alongside dragons in the shadows of Mount Doom". Also, I think, if the idea of a hominin different from erectus left Africa first holds out, that a habilis line hominin spread throughout Southern and maybe Eastern Asia, but where outcompeted by invading erectus line hominins except on a few remote islands, giving us the hobbits and their mixed bag of features.

@najwasabilayusuf1611 3 года назад

So let me get this straight -Indonesian -Tiny -long feet -Causes controversy I think that’s just my grandma

@JonnoPlays 2 года назад

Imagine being on the planet at a time when multiple species of pre-human existed.

@KyleBlues1 5 лет назад

God I love pbs eons.

@schwarzk6416 4 года назад

0:41 was during the Corona Era when a specie called Homosapien thought to buy all the toilet paper in existence would prevent them from being infected.

@G60J60F80 5 лет назад

It blows my mind that so many different kinds of hominids used to exist but have now gone extinct. It would be so cool to have other species more like us around.

@legendarypussydestroyer6943 2 года назад

There will probably be some kind of next level racism. Regular racism among homo sapiens and next level racism between homo sapiens and other human species lmao

@SuperWeenieHutJuniors Год назад

There would be some type of conflict to establish superiority. If there's racism within our own species, I could only imagine what tensions would be like if a different species of humans walked the earth. Genocide, most likely.

@dale9270 5 лет назад

I saw a new vid from pbs eons, I like first before I watch because I'm sure I'm going to like it and replay it many times.

@andrewrichens5733 5 лет назад

8:00 looks ready to say floresiensis with a hard r

@xx8113 4 года назад

As a LOTR fan, I did read loads of Tolkien books, and I somehow remember him talking about extinct hobbits hahaha.

@themoistalpaca5535 5 лет назад

They moved to the Undying lands with Frodo and Bilbo.

@jollebee991 4 года назад

Mortals do not have that kind of gift. Only the one knows

@lyndaadams7097 5 лет назад

Bones prove that they existed, no matter where on the tree.

@coggzi5865 4 года назад

Love the picture of the hobbit peacing out from the massive bird.

@AnarKhaos 5 лет назад

so glad you finally covered this.

@joaquinel 5 лет назад

I just realized when this guy finishes talking I have to catch my breath. Anyway, LOVE this channel, fun, instructive and AMAZING: Keep this way.

@LEDewey_MD 5 лет назад

Fascinating, and great presentation!

@where_my_biscuitbih2815 4 года назад

Imagine dieing one day and 20,000 years from now your bones are on a documentary about humans

@1800mexicano 5 лет назад

Snoop Dogg, whatever Miley Cirus, Whatever EONS, awe shoot, gotta try these raycons

@sentientdumpstersludge 5 лет назад

FINALLY! I watched a documentary about them ages ago and never forgot. Was waiting for this video.

@HerrGesetz 5 лет назад

Brilliant video. Clearly we have a lot left to discover,, which makes the "old guard anthropologists" defending there existing hypothesis to the bitter end a bit sad.

@Eowyn3Pride 3 года назад

Just like the tower guards guarding the white tree of Gondor...😔🎖

@michaeltumey7756 3 года назад

Makes me think of the "menehune", little mountain people in Hawaiian folklore. They were said to be skilled crafters and engineers of sorts building fish ponds (stone enclosures to place caught fish along the banks of rivers), as well as ditches and dams. Folklore states you pay them with one freshwater shrimp (opae) each menehune. Is it folklore, or is it a seafaring hobbit of Flores...?

@judsonwall8615 2 года назад

Polynesians originally migrated from Southeast Asia about 4500 years ago. In the video, it was saying there was possible evidence from as recently as 15,000 years ago. Perhaps a few survived another 10,000 years and those ancient ancestral Polynesians had some run ins with these little Flores peoples in the deep woods of island Southeast Asia. Then, a few thousand years later, when those ancient Polynesian’s descendants finally made it to Hawaii, they brought the stories of their ancestors with them: of little people in the hills and the woods; of Menehune.

@emilyjadeoliver 5 лет назад

Guys...I love your videos so much that I've clocked through all of them in the past week. You guys kick ass. While I'm not an expert in the field and while I know that there are limitations on how much info you can access or provide, I was wondering if you guys could enlighten us all as to why pandas are such terrible parents and how they have managed to survive this long?

@multivitamin425 4 года назад

When you are that short that scientists after thousands of years mistake you for another different species

@lmoral222 4 года назад

If we knew every mystery of human history (all of it) I have a lurking feeling that we would be completely blown away and have our entire perceptions on reality irreversibly altered.

@outlawmakaveli3969 4 года назад

I know right it's like everything they tell us that's folklore and fantasy is actually real and exist. Just on a higher frequency and vibration.

@Montblanc1986 5 лет назад

The Hobbit couldn't take down a full grown elephant but didn't they do that in Rohan?

@ricois3 5 лет назад

And it was an Oliphant on top of that

@janiwirman 5 лет назад

Nope, Legolas did. haha

@ricois3 5 лет назад

@@janiwirman But it still only counts as one

@Burt1038 5 лет назад

@@ricois3 Which is roughly 10 times the size of an actual elephant.

@sigitdchy 4 года назад

Or maybe 20 times the size of a pygmy elephant

@johnmcnaught7453 5 лет назад

Good stuff ! JRR Tolkien was on to something. Love this channel. Take care.

@flamencoprof 5 лет назад

2:16 One of the authors of that paper, M. J. Morwood, was in my class at high school, Mount Albert Grammar, Auckland NZ, and I'm very proud of him. I have been following the debate since the discovery was announced. The Hominin tree is getting bushier and bushier.

@Subfightr 3 года назад

So much info crammed in such a short graffic video. Wonderful job PBS team

@brekieinarsson3833 5 лет назад

I love your videos!!! Thanks from iceland😁

@hoidthings5728 5 лет назад

Not only the hobbits but jeeezzz, little elephants and giant marabou storks? Hell yeah!

@PaladinSalt 5 лет назад

love learning more about hominins

@GlitterHeather 3 года назад

You have never seen a true, bitter fight until you've watched Anthropologists duke it out in dueling papers.

@theukraniandream72 5 лет назад

Sure one of my mates is one of these

@nigelpalmer9248 5 лет назад

I can't remember how many years ago I saw a documentary from around there the locals told stories about little ppl that stole babies

@susie9893 4 года назад

I've seen documentaries along these lines too. I find it interesting that there's no mention of this at all in this short film

@Azzarinne 5 лет назад

Dangit! I JUST bought some Raycon earbuds, and NOW there's a link to support one of my favorite channels! Oh well. At least I can vouch for their quality. Me likey.

@habibainunsyifaf6463 5 лет назад

Funny thing is the elders in the island knew of their existence for centuries. They regards them as their ancestors and often provide them with offerings out of fruits which they place on the mouth of caves. The elders describes them as ferocious eaters and strong enough to eat a hard skinned pumpkin.

@daphneloose5880 5 лет назад

I love how you said that the Hobbit was from The Shire!! LOL. Love The LOTR comment too.

@sebyylove 5 лет назад

Fav narrator on pbs eons

@veggieboyultimate 5 лет назад

What if Homo Flourensis was the last surviving member of the Australopithecines and, like they said, were just a dawrf species of that family?

@robertisham5279 4 года назад

I think they are descended from the Homo Erectus

@kamilpotato3764 3 года назад

It has been perfectly explained before. Those "hobbits" were devolved ancient Humans after loosing their war to Forerunners.

@BigWoodesquireNC 4 года назад

I find it funny that they never consider that they found little person bones.

@biglil771 5 лет назад

African mega fauna (Natodomeri lion) video please

@jackgeiger3805 3 года назад

I absolutely love your jokes! "The Shire" cracked me up!

@visceratrocar 5 лет назад

I'm 34 years old and 5'1. I've been called a Hobbit since I've been alive.

@KevAlberta 5 лет назад

You hobbit ;)

@Eowyn3Pride 3 года назад

There is nothing wrong with being a Hobbit. They have proven time and time again to be resilient and fond of the comforts of home.❤❤❤😌🍻🧙‍♂️

@alison4316 4 года назад

This was in my recommended. I've been on a news binge lately... Thanks, YT algorithm.... You knew my psyche needed a break 👍🏼

@t.b.cont. 5 лет назад

1:45 “this is a mega stork”

@greyareaRK1 5 лет назад

Did they find a ring? Asking for a friend.

@TJ52359 4 года назад

every time they showed the 'squatting hobbit' I kept thinking , "let the poor guy poop in peace..."

@lonelycubicle 4 года назад

Thanks for this playlist

@rohitsoni2109 4 года назад

8:01 This is the Shire (this is America)

@slithra227 4 года назад

I read a few of these papers a while ago. There was a hypothesis that this species was affected by island dwarfism. Kind of like pygmy elephants and kiwis.