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.

Modern humans were already living throughout the ... of years after the Neanderthals had died out. They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit," after the diminutive villagers ...

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 ...

For a start, the Neolithic levels contain many deliberate burials (all of modern humans), with grave goods, whereas we have no indication of deliberate burials for Homo floresiensis. The Neolithic ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through ...

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 ...

It's fantastic to see such extremely good reproductions of important new fossil discoveries like Ardi and Homo floresiensis, as well as the latest groundbreaking research into the ancient human ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens ... visitors will see how physically adapted they were to cold climates. The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ...