Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived for hundreds of thousands of years on a remote Indonesian island.

DNA testing on Homo juluensis fossils could confirm whether Denisovans belong within this species or if they represent a distinct lineage. The human story is far from simple.

Scholars are rekindling the debate surrounding the ancestral history of Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “Hobbits of Flores,” after the discovery of a new adult arm bone, pegged to be roughly ...

Researchers found fossils of the extinct species Homo floresiensis at the Mata Menge excavation site, seen circa 2014, on the Indonesian island of Flores.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Were 600 Million-Year-Old Fossils of Tiny Humanoids Found in Antarctica? Nicknamed the "Hobbit," Homo floresiensis is considered to be the smallest known human species.

An international team of archeologists and other researchers on the Indonesian island of Flores found new fossils that belong to extremely rare early human species. Homo floresiensis has been ...

A tiny human relative called the hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new fossil suggests ...

An archaeologist believes the tiny humanoid species Homo floresiensis may still exist in Indonesia. Here's how they could have survived in secluded areas.