A Forgotten Bone Reveals a Giant Chicken-Like Bird From the "Hobbit" Cave

In 2009, researchers in Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, famous for the remains of the small human species Homo floresiensis, found a bird leg bone and set it aside. About 17 years later, it has been identified as a new extinct species of megapode, a ground-dwelling, chicken-like bird.

The 190,000 to 120,000-year-old fossil is the first megapode fossil found in Wallacea, the island region between mainland Asia and Australia. The species, Megapodius rokusi, weighed about 3.9 kilograms, making it the largest Megapodius ever found. Flores's living megapode, the orange-footed scrubfowl, weighs only 0.5 to 1.2 kilograms. The name honors Rokus Due Awe, who first recognized the Homo floresiensis bones and later identified this fossil as a bird bone.

From a single bone, scientists cannot tell whether it could fly or when it died out. The study appears in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.

Source: Phys.org, November 8, 2026 — https://phys.org/news/2026-11-species-ground-bird-largest-kind.html

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