Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

We have much earlier evidence, from skeletons and skulls, of modern humans ... If proven correct, then Homo sapiens and Homo floresiensis must have co-existed on the island for several tens ...

The researchers were part of the team that first discovered H. floresiensis at a cave in Flores, called Liang Bua, in 2003. A March study dated some hobbit bones to between 100,000 and 60,000 years ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient ... impressions Other star specimens in this part of the gallery include the Broken Hill skull of Homo heidelbergensis - the ...

those minuscule possible-humans who seem to have survived on the Indonesian island of Flores nearly into the Holocene.Where did the Hobbits (officially designated Homo floresiensis) come from? All the ...