Those Krofft Brothers Might Have Been On To Something

As the Homo Floresiensis debate rages (summary: hobbits versus tiny "cretins"?) new evidence emerges in the form of more little people! This time the bones were discovered in greater numbers, and in diving paradise Palau. This is where I spent a month in 2004, communing with a baby monkey and pretending that Bush didn't win. Who knew I was so close to such important paleoanthropological/cryptozoological find? Turns out the researcher who discovered the bones was also in Palau on vacation, specifically because his wife wanted to go to a place where it would be unlikely to find any bones. (Palau is solid limestone, with limited opportunity for burial and therefore also burial sites.) But on the last day he talked to a local who said he knew of a cave full of bones. There they found 1,200 specimens of humanoid skeletons: three feet tall, orbital ridges, and teeth "at odd angles." Hmm. Small, dentally challenged, and big brows. Could it be that our new contemporary cousins are neither hobbits nor cretins but rather the extended family of our old friend Chaka?