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 ...

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Scientists suggest that a severe, years-long drought may have led to the extinction of the hobbit-like species, Homo floresiensis.

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

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

An ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, once thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores, but their sudden disappearance ...

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.

These findings line up with the fossil record. More than 90 percent of pygmy elephant remains are found within a narrow window between 76,000 and 62,000 years ago, with their last appearance about ...

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

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 ...

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.