Decades of cinema have accustomed us to the living realities extreme size life forms, from giants to leprechauns. To be fair, ogres, trolls, fairies, sylphs, and goliaths were believed in by humans at the extreme mercy of the mysterious natural world, which gives and takes. Yet many of these extreme size life form stories have their roots in long-forgotten, factual events. And did big people and little people co-exist? Let’s look at the factual reported stories of the past to better answer this question, and also learn more about the range of extreme size people that lived long, long ago . . .
There are many stories and facts related to extreme size life forms and huge hominins are big characters in more than a few of these tales. (ginettigino / Adobe Stock)
Extreme Size Life Forms Report 1: 1877, Giant Legs
In 1877 a group of prospectors working near Eureka, Nevada found a human leg bone that had been broken off just above the knee. It was tightly wedged in solid rock. The miners chipped away at the stone until they freed the ancient remains of a lower leg, ankle, and foot.