Welcome to mediabong!

Why become a member? We need more and more members for this site to stay around. Member needs to submit news, comments,media , links, forum posts, etc for our site to grow. So if you like our news, media, or any other part of our site, please become a member and help our site grow! Guests can submit some things, but becoming a member gives you credit!

Submit News
| Submit Media | Submit Links | Submit Content | Become a Friend

news that bubbles

Scientists Are Unmoved by Claim of New Species

"New discoveries in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, notably another jaw bone, appear to give additional support to the idea that a separate species of little people new to science and now extinct lived there as recently as 12,000 years ago.

But a vigorous minority of skeptical scientists are unmoved by the new findings. They contend that the skeletal remains are more likely to be deformed modern humans, not a distinct species.

The scientists who announced the first findings a year ago and proclaimed the new species, Homo floresiensis, described the additional bones in a report being published on Thursday in the journal Nature. "




link:
Comments: 0 | Trackback: | posted by srafx in Science on Tuesday October 11 2005 - 15:59:42 email to someone printer friendly


News Categories



 
All trademarks are © their respective owners, all other content is © e107 powered website.
mediabong © mediabong.com 2003-2005.
Render time: 0.3701 second(s); 0.1250 of that for queries.