Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species within our genus having gone extinct no ...

A Homo floresiensis skull next those of other hominin species. Researchers have now discovered the species may have developed its small size in less than 350 generations.

Ever since the discovery of the short statured "hobbit" human, Homo floresiensis, in 2003, scientists have been debating where it fits on the human evolutionary tree. According to a new study, the ...

A researcher from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa is revealing new insights into a group called the Julurens — meaning the ...

In October 2004 Australian and Indonesian announced they had discovered a three-foot tall species of hominid, Homo floresiensis, that was still alive no earlier than18,000 years ago. As I’ve ...

Some scientists named the specimen Homo floresiensis, a dwarfed offshoot of Homo erectus (shown here in artist depiction), a human ancestor that lived as far back as 1.8 million years ago.

A very small human ancestor made a very big splash back in 2004, when researchers discovered the remains of Homo floresiensis, a 3-ft., prehuman “hobbit,” in a cave on the Indonesian island of ...

The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ...

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status ...

They came to the astonishing conclusion that the bones belonged to a new species, which they called Homo floresiensis, which stood only three feet tall, lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, had ...

Collaborators at Italy's University of Bologna created a 3D virtual model, built from X-ray CT scans, digitally filling in the missing pieces to reconstruct what the skull of Homo floresiensis ...