Twenty years ago, scientists found a three-foot skeleton on a tropical island. Where this human species fits in our ...

Later, when describing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team named the new species Homo floresiensis [PDF]. This ...

Homo floresiensis, also known as "Hobbit," was first discovered by researchers two decades ago through remains found in Liang ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

Researchers have debated how the hobbits – named Homo floresiensis after the remote Indonesian island of Flores – evolved to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story.

One of these species was the diminutive "Hobbit" - Homo floresiensis - which survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 50,000 years ago. Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

The archeologists have discovered hearths and burnt bones at Liang Bua, so Homo floresiensis used fire and did some cooking, which might have been a communal activity. What did they talk about ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient relatives adapted to their environment, becoming smaller in response to the limited resources available in the island environment ...

That means this hominin was alive at the same time as at least four other human relatives: Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo floresiensis, and modern humans. There's no question that these fossil are ...

A recent study suggested that the ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. “We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old site”, said the co-author ...