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A generous donation is acknowledged, and it is time to leave your feedback on what you’d like to sell to or see in the future museum shop. Images.

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Let’s take a moment to see how the image of the Hobbit and other hairy creatures are slipping into charts with the other folks around the block. Images.

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The Menehune of Hawaii and the Little People of Flores, the tiny 3 feet tall Homo floresiensis, appear to have a lot in common as Proto-Pygmies. Images.

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According to eyewitness accounts, the ominous creature has large eyes and can move at high speeds.

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Do some hairy hominids demonstrate culture? An insightful contribution from T. Peter Park. Images.

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New confirmation has come forth from Stony Brook University that we humans have remarkably, in our recent past, shared the Earth with another hominid species. Images.

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The ultimate in Wildpeople genealogy has been charted for your consideration. Graphic.

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There is a new analysis of the skull of Homo floresiensis, compared with others. Images.

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Hobbit critic Professor Teuku Jacob (above) passed away last October 17, 2007, and the critic of the new hominid species who took Jacob’s place as most outspoken is now in hot water..
Saying he sees the irony in his accusations of monetary gain for fame, one of the harshest skeptics of the claims that Homo floresiensis, [...]

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Tahoe Elf? Nevada Faery? Lake Tahoe Leprechaun? Deneau’s Hobgoblin?
There is a world of good names out there, and this one cannot go down as a “leprechaun-alien” for long, please.
Lloyd Deneau, 41, of Florida was on vacation at Lake Tahoe, located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevada.

As a side note, [...]

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Carl Diehl’s Metaphortean Space nicely adds a shiny chrome, intellectually-friendly frame around his insights into “blogsquatching”:
An interface is typically designed to make the new domain easier for a “user” to comprehend. When this remediation works, the user is fairly oblivious to the crossing-over that is going on. On the contrary, malfunction typically calls attention to [...]

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It is Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and the History Channel, on behalf of “Monster Quest II,” is here in Portland, Maine, with a film producer and crew today to digitally film interviews with me about cryptozoology, in the context of a five hour tour of the International Cryptozoology Museum.

Their snippets of the interviews, b-roll, and [...]

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You may have heard that recently the Hobbit fossils, technically Homo floresiensis, were in the news due to the remarkable claim that they were hoaxes because the teeth showed dental work. What was incredible, as I read this, was that this new debunking was done on the basis of the skeptic’s visual examination of [...]

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Tolkien’s hobbits walked an awful long way, but the real “hobbit”, Homo floresiensis, would not have got far.
Its flat, clown-like feet probably limited its speed to what we would consider a stroll, and kept its travels short, says Bill Jungers, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook.
“It’s never going to [...]

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The discovery that Homo floresiensis survived until so very recently, in geological terms, makes it more likely that stories of other mythical, human-like creatures such as Yetis are founded on grains of truth….Now, cryptozoology, the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold.Henry Gee, editor of Nature, “Flores, God and Cryptozoology,” 2004 [...]

Read: The Hobbit Hunt »