These colossal storks flew over Indonesia’s island of 'hobbit’-size humans - National Geographic

More than 60,000 years ago, the island of Flores was home to a bird that stood nearly twice as tall as the diminutive hominins.

In ancient Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia, hobbit-size humans shared the landscape with an immense bird. At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would have towered… [+6031 chars]

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