These 700,000-year-old remains offer unprecedented insights into the mysterious lineage of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ‘Hobbits,’ who roamed this island long before modern humans emerged.

Homo floresiensis was one of the last human species to go extinct, but also one of the most different from Homo sapiens. As far as we know, Homo floresiensis lived exclusively on the Indonesian ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...

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