Artists impression of a group of Homo floresiensis with a freshly killed stegodon (Stegodon florensis insularis)MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYSevere drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesias pygmy elephants and the hobbit-like humans who hunted them.Until about 50,000 years ago, Homo floresiensis, standing about a metre tall, thrived on the South Pacific island of Flores by consuming meat from dwarf pachyderms called stegodons.Researchers originally thought that the tiny hominins whose bones were discovered
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