Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

The femur of Homo floresiensis (bottom ... The vertebrae, femur and mandible bones here belong to an extinct species of Komodo dragon. (Here’s what thousands of rat bones reveal about the ...

(NewsNation) — A small, now-extinct species of prehistoric human known as the “hobbits” may have had even more diminutive ancestors, according to a new study published in the science journal Nature on ...

In 2003, researchers discovered the remains of an ancient hominid species in a cave called Liang Bua on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Named homo floresiensis after the island, these human ...

One of these species was the diminutive "Hobbit" - Homo floresiensis - which survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 50,000 years ago. Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient relatives adapted to ... The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before ...

Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive species, highlighting their small physical size.

Study published in Nature magazine X/@FossilHistory The striking similarities between the Mata Menge fossils and Homo ... that Homo floresiensis (Hobbits) descended from that species, said the ...

uncovered the remains of a previously unknown species of small-statured hominins at Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Homo floresiensis, affectionately dubbed 'the ...