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Wild Chronicles: Early Human Fossils in Palau

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Person carefully handling a very small humanoid skull. Caption: that researchers dubbed "the hobbit."

Anthropologists have made new fossil discoveries on Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. But these fossils do not appear to be of animal origins. Could they belong to early humans? If so, scientists must answer the question of human variation. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.

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