The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

One of the most enigmatic extinct human species, is Homo floresiensis, the Hobbit species. Apparently, there are some people who are of the belief that Homo floresiensis never went extinct.

The study authors believe that Homo erectus may have come to the island as much as 1.2 million years ago and that Homo floresiensis descended from them, gradually getting smaller along the way.

These individuals—called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the “ hobbits ” after J.R.R. Tolkien ’s small Middle-earth inhabitants—were shorter than today’s average human 4-year-old.

Homo floresiensis, a species of humans dubbed “Hobbits” for their short stature, were even smaller than previously thought, a new fossil study has revealed. The species, related to modern ...

Ten Homo floresiensis fossils, including some described in 2016, from at least four individuals – two adults and two children – have been excavated from sandstone at Mata Menge, along with ...

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 ...

An analysis of newly described Homo floresiensis fossils published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications attempts to answer some of these questions about the tiny human. The remains ...

An analysis of newly described Homo floresiensis fossils published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications attempts to answer some of these questions about the tiny human. The remains ...