The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike humanoids could still live there, evolution be damned.

Think of this as the hunt for Bigfoot, only with a much smaller target.

Forth has studied the homo floresiensis for roughly four decades—first when at the University of Oxford and then at the University of Alberta. He wrote a book in 2022, Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid, and The Debrief recently ran an interview with Forth on the quest.

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Forth still believes in the modern interpretation of what the locals call the lai ho’a.

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