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 ...

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 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 ...

The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known as Homo floresiensis. Residing on the Indonesian island of Flores until ...

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 ...