The March 25 issue of Science includes a report by Elizabeth Culotta giving further details about the damage suffered by Homo floresiensis either while in the possession of Indonesian paleoanthropologist Teuku Jacob or during transport back to its official repository at the Center for Archaeology in Jakarta. While each side in this controversy charges that the other side was responsible for the damage, a dramatic photo published with the Science article makes it dreadfully clear just how extensive the damage was. The photo shows two shots of the left side of the hominid's fragile pelvis, before and after transport. In the before view, it appears entirely intact; in the after view, the pelvis is broken into at least six pieces.

Culotta quotes Australian paleoanthropologist Peter Brown, a member of the original team that discovered the hominid also known as "the Hobbit," as saying that wherever the damage to the pelvis occurred "it was too fragile to move in the first place. [It] should never have left Jakarta."