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

“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 ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...