Researchers discover that strange hobbits were not early human dwarves, but an entirely different species

A TINY human race which was recently discovered in Indonesia was not an early human but an entirely different species, scientists have found.

The ancient “hobbits”, who would have stood at 3.5 foot tall, were found at Liang Bua on the island of Flores in 2003.

Ancients hobbits who once lived in Indonesian most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and are not a dwarf descendant of Homo erectus as has been widely believed

Experts initially believed the Homo Floresiensis – or Flores man – were just a shrunken variety of early humans.

But a study by The Australian National University (ANU) found the race were most likely a completely different species.

Researchers think they were related to a sister species of Homo habilis – one of the earliest known species of human found in Africa 1.75 million years ago.

The bones of a new kind of human that, because it was so small, was nick-named “the hobbit” was found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003