If the earlier -? species still existed, would it be illegal to hunt them?

It could be they will be resurrected by some scientist one day via cloning! Flores man ("hobbits") lived on an island in Indonesia until quite recently, with bones from 20,000 before present, or something of that sort. Possibly pixies and leprechauns and such legends may have some origin in some folk memory of slightly malign and resentful remnant species. Then there are bigfoot, yetis and other possible hominids of australopethecine size. According to the scientists humans who migrated out of Africa interbred a little with neanderthals and another hominid race in Southern Russia and have a little bit of their DNA.