The Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the Island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia was the site of the 2003 discovery of a potentially new species of Homo genus, Homo floresiensis, the remains of which are coded LB1, LB2, etc., after the cave. So far it is the only location in which such remains have been identified.
Palaeofauna
- Homo floresiensis,
- Stegodon florensis insularis, dwarfed Stegodontid proboscidean
- Papagomys theodorverhoeveni, Giant rat
- Papagomys armandvillei, Giant rat
- Varanus komodoensis, Giant varanid lizard
- Leptoptilos robustus, A giant marabou stork.
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