The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...

Homo floresiensis are extremely small humans who once lived on Flores Island, Indonesia, tens of thousands of years ago. When scientists first discovered fossils of this early human species, they ...

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?

One of these species was the diminutive "Hobbit" - Homo floresiensis - which survived ... upright-walking ape-like creatures that lived in Africa between two and four million years ago, as well ...

But the problem with this new species is that it lived at least 2 million years ... Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo floresiensis, and modern humans. There's no question that these fossil are ...