A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

It was an astonishing discovery: the skeletal remains of a new human species that lived for eons on a remote island while man colonized the rest of the planet. Back when it was first discovered in ...

On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the landscape around them withered. New research argues that a brutal, 6,000-year ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 years ago.

(CNN) – An ancient tiny human species that lived in Indonesia until about 50,000 years ago is baffling scientists. The extinct species nicknamed “hobbit” was first discovered nearly 21 years ago on ...