A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...

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 ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Related: Traces of ancient human crawling discovered in Italian cave Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their short stature, were first discovered in 2003 at the Liang Bua cave site on Flores ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their ...

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 than a ...

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 ...

Nick Scroxton receives funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and conducted this work while receiving funding from the Australian Research Council. Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh ...

A new climate record suggests that Homo floresiensis — pint-size human relatives nicknamed “hobbits” — endured thousands of years of intensifying drought before disappearing from their Indonesian ...

Homo floresiensis also known as “the Hobbit,” lived about 95,000 to 17,000 years ago and were confined to the small Island of Flores, Indonesia. The first collections were found in the Liang Bua cave ...

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 ...