But the stability didn’t last. A drought lasting thousands of years gripped the region, slowly driving the hobbits toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...

A long time ago, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, there lived strange, small-statured humans who dwelled among giant storks and shrunken elephants. But after two decades of research, and no small ...

The small-brained, small-statured species, just about 3.5ft tall, likely lived on the island as recently as 50,000 years ago, but then mysteriously vanished. Previous research suggested their ...

Unos nuevos fósiles de Indonesia, entre ellos el húmero más pequeño jamás hallado de un hominino adulto, pertenecían a la diminuta especie “Homo floresiensis”, según los investigadores. By Carl Zimmer ...

Colonization of islands often activate a complex chain of adaptive events that, over a relatively short evolutionary time, may drive strong shifts in body size, a pattern known as the Island Rule. It ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Flores, Indonesia is the home of the scientific study ...