A cave climate record shows that a long, intensifying drought likely pushed the “hobbit” humans to disappear from Flores.

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.

The brain of the extinct "hobbit" was bigger than often thought, researchers say. These findings add to evidence that the hobbit was a unique species of humans after all, not a deformed modern human, ...

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 ...

On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the ...

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 ...

Fossilized skeletons resembling a mythical 'hobbit' creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain, according to researchers. Cutting-edge 3D modeling technology was used ...

LIANG BUA, Indonesia — Hunched over a picnic table in a limestone cave, the Indonesian researcher fingers the bones of a giant rat for clues to the origins of a tiny human. Here, on the remote island ...

A dwarf-ed, human-like skeleton was discovered in 2004 deep inside Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Was it a diseased human? A child? Further examination of the bones revealed that ...