The skull (left) of Homo floresiensis is displayed next to a modern human's skull at a news conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2004, shortly after the hobbit's discovery was made public.

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.

Homo floresiensis, a ... Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens; Ancient 'Dragon Man' skull from China isn't what we ... they found stone tools dating back at least 118,000 years, ...

The origin story of Homo floresiensis, an oddball member of the human family that lived as recently as 60,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, is coming into focus. With its miniature ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis were marooned on an Indonesian island and are believed ... Fossils that were discovered on the island 20 years ago and date back 60,000 to 100,000 years suggested the ...

A new fossil find pushes back both the age and the size of the ancestors of the so-called Hobbits. Bones from the diminutive protohumans named Homo floresiensis were first found in a cave on the ...

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 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.