A severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the extinction of the diminutive human species known as Homo floresiensis, or the Flores Man, around 50,000 years ago. The hobbit-like ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how ...

Upon closer examination, they discovered it was an upper arm bone, or humerus, from the diminutive extinct species Homo floresiensis, nicknamed "The Hobbit." This fossil, dating back about 7,00 ...

They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit," after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. The team has since recovered bones from as many as ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

A gay man was beaten this past Tuesday night in the street in Amsterdam, and police believe that the incident was motivated by bias. The NL Times reports that two men yelled at their alleged ...

“Paranthropus robustus wasn’t our direct ancestor, but, instead, was a very closely related contemporary (a ‘cousin,’ if you will) of Homo ergaster, a species that we do think was our direct ancestor, ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new ...

Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.