Did you know real Hobbit people used to exist on the planet a long time ago? In September 2003, archaeologists on the Indonesian Island of Flores discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a small ...

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.

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 ...

This "big-headed" species lived in eastern Asia alongside other distinct human groups like Homo floresiensis and Homo longi around 300,000 years ago, suggesting interaction and intermixing between ...

For example, in 2003, scientists discovered the fossil remains of homo floresiensis ... while they split from the modern human Homo sapien lineage around 600,000 years ago. Last year researchers ...

Approximately 1.5 million years ago, two human relatives belonging to two distinct species made their way along the shore of an ancient lake. Researchers know this because the hominins ...

But the discovery of the humerus in particular helps shed some more light on the body size of Homo floresiensis. The team also found two additional hominin teeth similar in shape to early Homo ...

The species was dubbed Homo floresiensis, referring to the island of Flores where they were found, and scientists estimate they stood about 3.5 feet tall. The only hobbit fossils ever found have ...

It was initially believed that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed descendant of the early Asian populations of human ancestor species Homo erectus. Some researchers speculated that the “Hobbits of ...

Now a new study suggests that the ancestors of the diminutive Homo floresiensis, nicknamed “Hobbits” after the fictional characters in The Lord of the Rings, were even shorter. “We did not ...

The arm bone's microscopic structure resembled that of an adult Homo sapien, though based on an estimate of the humerus's complete length, the adult who once owned the arm bone stood at just 1 meter ...