Indonesian Hobbit
''Homo floresiensis'' also known as "Flores Man"; nicknamed "Hobbit") is an Extinction, extinct species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of Homo sapiens, modern humans about 50,000 years ago. The remains of an individual who would have stood about in height were discovered in 2003 at Liang Bua on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Partial skeletons of at least nine individuals have been recovered, including one complete skull, referred to as "LB1". These remains have been the subject of intense research to determine whether they were diseased modern humans or a separate species; a 2017 study concludes by phylogenetic analysis that ''H. floresiensis'' is an early species of ''Homo'', a Sister group, sister species of ''Homo habilis''. This hominin was at first considered remarkable for its survival until relatively recent times, initially thought to be only 12,000 years ago. However, more extensive stratigraphic and chron ...
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Cantonal Museum Of Geology
The Cantonal Museum of Zoology (french: Musée cantonal The 26 cantons of Switzerland (german: Kanton; french: canton ; it, cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: ; Vallader and Puter: ; Sutsilvan: ; Rumantsch Grischun: ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Con ... de zoologie) is a zoology museum in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland. History The museums history dates from 1779, when the "objects" of natural history in the Académie de Lausanne were indexed by Daniel-Alexandre Chavannes. In 1826, Chavannes vertebrate collection was purchased by Vaud, L'Etat de Vaud. The museum opened in the Académie de Lausanne in 1833. In 1886, the museum acquired 1,300 specimens bird specimens from Albert Vouga (1829–1896), the author of ''Album Neuchâtelois. Vues historiques et pittoresques'' a book of landscape and natural history photography. Important collections of later date include the ant collection of Auguste Forel and the ...
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