cold fjord writes: Sir Ian Holm, a classically trained actor celebrated for his interpretations of Shakespeare, and with an astonishing range of work in important science fiction and fantasy films, has died at age 88. Holm’s depiction of King Lear was celebrated, and he brought Puck to life in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” But most people on Slashdot will remember him…
Tag: Hobbit
Tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ thanks to fast evolution
New research suggests that the tiny human species – that survived until about 18,000 years ago, later than any human species other than our own – evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tiny-extinct-hobbit-human-species-fast-evolution…
Why Humans’ Extinct ‘Hobbit’ Relatives Were So Small
The diminutive size of the extinct human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, could come down to really fast evolution. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-hobbits-were-so-small.html
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
DevNull127 writes: The 77th World Science Fiction Convention announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony Sunday night. Here’s some of the highlights. At least two of these stories can be read (for free) online: BEST NOVELETTE: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho. The entire text is availabe online in the B&N…
New Tiny Hominid Species Found in Philippine Cave
Another day … another “This changes everything!” discovery. Today’s potentially earth-shattering find comes from the Philippines where teeth extracted from a cave on the island of Luzon have been determined to have once been in the mouths of a diminutive extinct human species that was less that four feet tall, lived at least 50,000 years… Continue reading New Tiny Hominid Species Found in Philippine Cave