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

Or maybe they interbreed with other species — like humans did with neanderthals. Or they could die out completely, like our doomed cousins Homo floresiensis, which inhabited a tiny Indonesian ...

What do the world’s fastest creatures on land, sea and air all have in common? My colleagues and I have taken a key step ...

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. In an elaborate experiment ...

13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ...