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From about 200,000 to 50,000 years ago, the Indonesian island of Flores hosted a unique species of dwarf human, Homo floresiensis. Also called Hobbits, they reached adult heights of just over a meter. They lived alongside the still extant Komodo Dragon, and the extinct giant stork, Leptoptilos robustus, both of which may have hunted the tiny humans of the island.