Twenty years after researchers discovered an ancient race of "hobbit" humans on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new team ...

And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters ... An unearthed humerus bone is the smallest human limb bone ever found, and a digital analysis ...

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The disparity in size between the two could point to natural variation, as seen within modern human populations ...

The sediment layer containing the fossils was dated in previous research to around 700,000 years ago. This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis ...

The original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and ... as a result of breakthrough 47 years after his frozen body was found in a PA cave [updated] 'Pinnacle Man' identified as a result ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes Peninsula’s ancient geological past. Researchers ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after characters in “The Lord of the Rings” — date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a ...

This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient ...

Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for ...