He is perfectly proportioned, but 1/4 the mass of a normal adult.

I don’t know what his wrist bones look like. But the argument that the hobbits could not make the tools is at least potentially refuted, as he too, has a small brain.

In fact, they all have ears like this, and large noses, large eyes, etc. They all look related.

Worth catching a repeat if one is interested in the hobbits.

No serious paleontologist or biologist holds those views anymore. In fact many dinosaur skulls show rather sizable brain cavities and room for medulla oblongata. When I expressed an opinion on a subject recently, someone called me a “real dinosaur.” My retort was that dinosaurs were one of the most diverse, successful and dominate lifeforms on the planet for over a 100 million years and it was only catastrophic external forces that wiped them out. And besides, we now know many were colorful, fast, alert and rather intelligent.

Understanding and interpretation of existing life forms is constantly changing as well. For example: crocodiles show maternal instinct, they have a high degree of intelligence and can learn, they have a social hierarchy and their four chambered heart almost makes them endothermic. Twenty years ago, saying such stuff about crocs would have gotten you booted out of some institutions. But folks like the late Steve Irwin, Dr. Adam Britton and others have proven over and over, these animals are not what everyone wrote about in the textbooks written over the last few hundred years.

Who knows? Maybe that bird at your feeder really isn’t a bird after all? Feathers and scales are basically made out of the same material.

Yes, I know it’s unlikely that’s how it really looked. It was meant to be humorous

You might have been right all this time, since a lot of paleonthologists are now speculating that the offspring of T-Rex might have sported a coat of proto-feathers during their early years of their life.

So they might have looked like fluffy chicks… from Hell

I’ve also read that some are dissenting about the new Floriensis finding, citing variability in wrist bones. I’ll give a quote from the latest at Strangeark “Dr. Eckhardt noted, in particular, that there is ‘a lot of variation in the form of wrist bones.’ Some variations, he said, are normal and others occur ‘as the result of various pathologies, such as from injuries or from anomalies of development.’ “ I still remember back in the 70’s when feathers on dinos was first made public. I drew a cartoon for some friends showing a T-Rex covered in puffy down like a baby chick. I dubbed it Tyrannosaurus Rex Fluffia. (Yes, I know it’s unlikely that’s how it really looked. It was meant to be humorous)