Hobbits
While it would be sort of wrong to call Hobbits “animals” or “creatures,” we tend to put them in the magical creature territory. However, as we’ve made very clear here by now, myths are often based on reality in some form. While movies/books like Lord of the Rings have made Hobbits relatively popular today, they weren’t liked a long time ago and were sometimes even feared. Therefore, those with dwarfism might be attacked or killed out of fear. Mysterious animals of all kinds make people act out of fear, and attack those assumed to be different. Yet Hobbits were actually real, sort of.
Archeologists uncovered what could only be described as protohumans that were roughly 3 feet tall in length and would have lived among modern humans. The bones uncovered date back 65,000 to 50,000 years but others found date back nearly 200,000 years. Many would likely assume the skeleton studied, found in Indonesia, just belonged to a person with dwarfism. However, this was not the case as the skeletons they studied all grew to what would have been the norm for their bodies and hard large primitive feet. While no pointy ears, large noses, or anything like that was found…the discovery that Hobbit-like humans were real is fascinating.