Did you know real Hobbit people used to exist on the planet a long time ago? In September 2003, archaeologists on the ...

These 700,000-year-old remains offer unprecedented insights into the mysterious lineage of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ...

First unearthed in a startling discovery nearly 21 years ago, Homo floresiensis, the scientific name for the extinct species, challenged the idea that human evolution unfolded in a neat line from ...

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“This very rare specimen confirms our hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo floresiensis were extremely ... on Flores,” said Chris Stringer, a human origins researcher at the Natural History ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

The Flores island humans persisted until about 50,000 years ... Since the Mata Menge Homo floresiensis are about hundreds of thousands of years older than the earliest evidence for Denisovans ...

More remarkable than its short stature was its minuscule brain, about one-third the size of a modern human’s. Analyzing the cave floor, scientists determined the Homo floresiensis bones were ...

It was initially believed that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed descendant of the early Asian populations of human ancestor species Homo erectus. Some researchers speculated that the “Hobbits of ...

Hobbit-sized humans: big hairy feet ... is slightly smaller than that of the original Homo floresiensis remains at Liang Bua. Photo: Yousuke Kaifu The original Homo floresiensis fossils ...