SCIENTISTS have found new clues about a mysterious ancient human species - indicating they roamed around the earth a million years ago.

The species called "Hobbit" was first discovered in 2004 when archaeologists searching a cave on an Indonesian island found a 60,000-year-old skull no bigger than a grapefruit.

And after some digging, archaeologists uncovered some very well-preserved fossil remains in the Liang Bua cave on Flores Island, Indonesia.

The diminutive size of this new human species, scientifically called homo floresiensis, earned it the nickname "Hobbit".

Shockingly, researchers believe the three-foot-tall hominin had survived until the end of the last Ice Age, some 18,000 years ago.

That was much later than Neanderthals lived, later than any human species other than our o

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