shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The “astonishingly small” limb, believed to be around 700,000 years old, was found in the island of Flores in ...

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

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

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 ...

But a new revelation sheds more light on how the diminutive human — nicknamed hobbit after J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional characters — might have evolved. A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo ...