A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

It's not every day that scientists discover a new human species. But that's just what happened back in 2004, when archaeologists uncovered some very well-preserved fossil remains in the Liang Bua cave ...

However, there was still an important piece of the puzzle missing during previous excavations at Meta Menge. The postcranial elements–bones from below the head–from this species had yet to be ...

One-meter-tall humans? It sounds incredible, something out of a Tolkien fantasy. But two decades ago, scientists discovered an ancient species of tiny humans. The hobbit-sized hominins lived on the ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a changing climate played a role in the extinction of the early human species Homo ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, a tiny species of human existed on a small Indonesian island. Standing at around 1.1 meters in height, Homo floresiensis is thought to have lived on the island of ...

In a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers have uncovered new insights into the mysterious extinction of Homo floresiensis, a small-bodied human species that once ...

In 2003, archaeologists from Indonesia and Australia discovered the bones of a new species of human, named Homo floresiensis, in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Its short stature – about ...

The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor ...

The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua. A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare ...

On the Indonesian island of Flores, there lives a group of people known as the Rampasasa pygmies. Their average height is about four feet seven inches, and their hamlet is very close to Liang Bua, a ...

Ever since pieces of eight tiny skeletons were found several years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, debate has raged over whether or not the remains came from a forgotten branch of the human ...