Care for a bite of hobbit? A contemporary Marabou stork. By Ltshears (Own work) CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons To anyone who associates storks with the delivery of sweetly-bundled little ...

A mysterious relative of the extinct human species nicknamed the "hobbit" may have once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, new research suggests. This finding could one day help shed light on ...

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

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The remains of a member of the smallest ancient human species on record, who stood at just 1m tall, have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. The fossil arm bone belonged to a tiny ...

Fossils unearthed on the Indonesian island of Flores may resolve one of the most intriguing mysteries in anthropology: the ancestry of the extraordinary diminutive human species dubbed the "Hobbit." ...

Ancient tiny people whose remains were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores evolved from large-bodied Homo erectus individuals from Asia, according to the first ever comprehensive analysis of ...

I didn’t need a three-part blockbuster film to make me a Tolkien fan. My fascination with all things Middle Earth goes back to childhood, when I first read “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” in ...

Take a stroll in the very English town of Eastsound, Orcas Island, and see the many colors of flowers. Rosemary Ponnekanti Staff writer I didn’t need a three-part blockbuster film to make me a Tolkien ...

But others think the Hobbit's strange features, such as its particularly small brain, cannot be reconciled with our present knowledge of the origins of modern humans. The latest twist in the Hobbit ...