While more than 100 Homo floresiensis fossils — likely belonging to six or seven individuals — have been unearthed to date, there’s only one relatively complete skeleton and only one skull ...

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived for hundreds of thousands of years on a remote Indonesian island. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists Befuddled After Finding First-Ever Hominin Fossils In Sundaland — It Could Rewrite Migration Patterns Hominins ...

The extinct species Homo floresiensis has long puzzled experts. A new analysis offers clues to the mystery of this tiny oddball’s place on the human family tree.

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

Dated to about 700,000 years old, the new findings shed light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called 'Hobbits' of Flores whose remains were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in the ...

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...

One of the most enigmatic extinct human species, is Homo floresiensis, the Hobbit species. Apparently, there are some people who are of the belief that Homo floresiensis never went extinct.

The researchers now believe these small-bodied people may have been early relatives of H. floresiensis, who were wiped about around 50,000 years ago around the time when modern humans (Homo ...

The original Homo floresiensis fossils — named after the island of Flores where they lived — date to between 60,000 and 100,000 years.At the time, scientists nicknamed them “hobbits” due ...