Extinct 'Hobbit' creature the size of a house cat discovered in Wyoming dig site

Subheading is less clickbaity: Meet Beornus honeyi — but you can call him Beorn.

And the paragraph that explains it:

"I have always been a huge Tolkien fan, and there is a long-standing tradition of naming early Paleocene mammals after Tolkien characters," Madelaine Atteberry, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder and lead author of a new study on B. honeyi and its relatives, told Live Science in an email. "I chose Beornus honeyi because of the large size and 'inflated' appearance of its teeth compared to the other mammals from this time period."

Not a hobbit though, and that’s what this punter was here to see.