The skull (left) of Homo floresiensis is displayed next to a modern human's skull at a news conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2004, shortly after the hobbit's discovery was made public.

A Homo floresiensis skull next those of other hominin species. Researchers have now discovered the species may have developed its small size in less than 350 generations.

Fortunately the first draft is now done, so I can let my mind drift back from the microbial world, to Homo floresiensis. And it just so happens that a big new paper has come out today which is a ...

Ever since the discovery of the short statured "hobbit" human, Homo floresiensis, in 2003, scientists have been debating where it fits on the human evolutionary tree. According to a new study, the ...

Back in 2003, the skeletal fragments of nine small hominids were found in the Liang Bua Cave on Flores, an Indonesian Island. The find included an almost complete skull and partial skeleton of a ...

A researcher holds a skull of a Homo floresiensis in Indonesia. This world turned upside down may once have existed on the remote island of Flores, where an international team is trying to shed ...

Some scientists named the specimen Homo floresiensis, a dwarfed offshoot of Homo erectus, a human ancestor that lived as far back as 1.8 million years ago.. Critics dismissed the remains as that ...

The extinct species Homo floresiensis has long puzzled experts. A new analysis offers clues to the mystery of this tiny oddball’s place on the human family tree.

Here is case-closed proof that today’s solitary existence of Homo sapiens is a fluke in the history of hominids. Even 18,000 years ago, at least one other species walked the Earth with us ...

The skull (left) of Homo floresiensis is displayed next to a modern human's skull at a news conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2004, shortly after the hobbit's discovery was made public.