Relict hominid
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Relict hominids are ancient forms of humans that are believed still to exist in isolated parts of the world. The study of relict hominids is a form of cryptozoology.
Many cultures share similar legends of ape-like or small humanoid beings: the yeti, the yowie, Bigfoot, and so forth. Some researchers believe these are relict hominids.
[edit] Relict hominids across the world
The following is an incomplete list of some legendary creatures that might represent relict hominids, or racial memories of now-extinct hominid species. For a longer list, see Category:Hominid cryptids.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Skunk Ape, and other such "ape-men" of the United States.
- Menehune, a "little people" of Hawaii.
- Ebu Gogo, a "little people" of Flores, Indonesia. (Remains of the one-meter-tall Homo floresiensis were discovered on Flores in 2003.)
- Homo gardarensis bones found in a twelfth century Viking burial in Greenland, resembling those of Homo heidelbergensis.
- Orang Pendek, an "ape-man" of Sumatra.
- Yowie, an "ape-man" of Australia.
- Yeti, or the "Abominable Snowman", an "ape-man" of the Himalayas.
- Almas, a "wild man" reported from as far apart as the Caucasian Mountains and Mongolia.
- The woodwose, a "wild man" of medieval Britain.
