Study: Giant Storks Roamed the Island of the Hominid "Hobbits"

So did the hobbits and the giant storks live in peaceful harmony, or did they try to kill each other? On the island of Flores, the same place where controversial evidence of the tiny ancient hominid Homo floresiensis turned up in 2003, scientists found large leg bones in a cave. A new analysis of those bones published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society indicates that they belong to giant storks taller than any alive today, capable of towering over the Homo floresiensis "hobbits."