Until some 60,000 years ago, petite early humans standing just over three feet tall lived on Flores Island in what is now Indonesia. These individuals—called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed 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?

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

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 ...