With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...
A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.
A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...
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A 6,000-year megadrought likely erased hobbit-like humans
On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...
A cave climate record shows that a long, intensifying drought likely pushed the “hobbit” humans to disappear from Flores.
Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.
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