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

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

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

An international team of scientists has found compelling evidence that a changing climate played a role in the extinction of the early human species Homo floresiensis, also known as ‘hobbits’. Their ...

A recent study offers a new approach that may fundamentally reshape our understanding of the fate of Flores man.

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. When you purchase through links on ...