In the year 2004 , a new species of human termed “homo floresiensis” was discovered from Liang Bua Cave on the island of Flores which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores just 18,000 years ago. Homo floresiensis were tiny individuals ,roughly just about one meter in height , with grapefruit-sized skulls. These little humans , nicknamed ‘hobbits’, made tools, hunted tiny elephants and lived at the same time as modern humans who were colonizing the area. This, in combination with the unusually small stature and brain size of …

Do you know that Beetles account for around 25% of all known life-forms on this planet. They belong to the order Coleoptera, which happens to be the largest and most diverse order, not only in the insect class, but in the entire animal kingdom. It is believed that there are eight times as many beetle species as there are fish, amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species all put together. Eight times!!! Those are really huge numbers of beetles which goes on to tell us that these creatures can survive in …