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Gregory Forth, an anthropologist, believes that maybe species of ancient humans haven’t died out at all, and there could still be some of them alive today.

Flores Island is home to giant rats and Komodo dragons.
In the far reaches of the Indonesian archipelago lies a long, narrow land of steep mountains, jagged cliffs, and deep ravines called Flores Island. This island is home to some notable creatures, including the Flores giant rat, and the Komodo dragon, world’s largest lizard. Moreover, it was only about 20 years ago that scientists discovered a small but complete skeleton of a long-extinct species of human on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Scientists had been looking for evidence of the relocation of humans from Asia to Australia for a long time, because if humans originated from the same place but succeeded to spread themselves across the world, then somebody might have taken the first step to make that first journey. According to the IFL Science reports, the skeleton was soon dubbed ‘Homo floresiensis’ after it was discovered.
The initial research after the finding of the small skeleton revealed that Homo floresiensis survived until around 12,000 years ago before joining the extinct list. However, further research suggested it would be more correct to claim that the human species likely went out for good around 50,000 years ago, which is a pretty big difference.
In the meantime, Gregory Forth, an anthropologist, believes that maybe this species of ancient human hasn’t died out at all, and there could still be some of them alive today. He argues that other scientists have overlooked the clues which point towards the presence of an ape-man living in the forests of Flores for far too long.
Penning his thesis, The scientist Gregory Forth said that he had talked to a number of eyewitnesses who had seen something which could be an indication of the Hobbit still living to this day.
“My aim in writing the thesis was to find the best explanation, that is, the most rational and empirically supported Lio accounts of the creatures,” he wrote.
Forth further states that this book includes reports of findings by more than 30 eyewitnesses, all of whom he spoke with directly, and he concludes that the best way to explain what they told him is that a non-Sapiens hominid has survived on Flores to the present or very recent times.
He noted that local accounts of something not quite human yet bore an eerie similarity to people, and that something which was so similar to us and yet so different could be seen as ‘problematic and disturbing.’
In addition to that, Gregory Forth has suggested that either the ape man is still living or only died out within the last 100 years instead of 50,000.