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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2025 IDA Documentary Awards wrapped up with a notable lineup of winners and nominees. The ceremony served as a space of recognition for nonfiction creators across film and television. This year's ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

The San Francisco 49ers are getting a documentary. AMC and Bay Area native Tom Brady came together to put together a documentary that will dive deep into the 49ers' rise to become one of the NFL's all ...

“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 ...

Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's four-part documentary on embattled hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was released Tuesday on Netflix. "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" chronicles his rise to become one of ...

50 Cent's documentary on Sean "Diddy" Combs is all-access. The limited documentary series – co-produced by Combs' longtime foe with director Alexandria Stapleton – opens with shaky footage of Combs ...