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 ...

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 ...

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

Modern humans unfairly blamed for extinction of Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’, scientists say - Previous research linked disappearance of small-brained species to arrival of homo sapiens ...

A 700,000-year-old fragment of an adult humerus uncovered in 2013 has recently been classified as belonging to an early representative of a species once colorfully described as 'hobbits'. Smaller than ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species came to evolve. Homo ...

New fossil finds show small pre-humans were living on an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday. The findings support the idea that a race of slender, short hominins ...