First unearthed in a startling discovery nearly 21 years ago, Homo floresiensis, the scientific name for the extinct species, challenged the idea that human evolution unfolded in a neat line from ...

Previously, scientists discovered a jaw fragment and six teeth belonging to at least three individuals, whose anatomical features were even smaller than those in Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua.

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

The archeologists have discovered hearths and burnt bones at Liang Bua, so Homo floresiensis used fire and did some cooking, which might have been a communal activity. What did they talk about ...

In 2003 the fossilised bones of a species of human called Homo floresiensis were discovered in the Liang Bua cave on Indonesia’s island of Flores by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.

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?

14, 2009, at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island of Indonesia. A world turned upside down may once have existed on the ...

The researchers were part of the team that first discovered H. floresiensis at a cave in Flores, called Liang Bua, in 2003. A March study dated some hobbit bones to between 100,000 and 60,000 years ...

They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit ... Five years after the initial discovery, says Martin, "nobody's budging an inch." Some critics say that it would have been ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient ... Human Occupation of Britain and Pathways to Ancient Britain projects, including the discovery of the oldest human footprints ...

The discovery of Homo naledi included at least ... Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo floresiensis, and modern humans. There's no question that these fossil are something different, Harcourt-Smith ...