These 700,000-year-old remains offer unprecedented insights into the mysterious lineage of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ...

Homo floresiensis, also known as "Hobbit," was first discovered by researchers two decades ago through remains found in Liang ...

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?

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

One of these species was the diminutive "Hobbit" - Homo floresiensis - which survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until 50,000 years ago. Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of an individual classified as Homo floresiensis, a smaller offshoot of Homo erectus, an extinct human ancestor, inside a cave in Indonesia in 2003.

Despite a fragmentary fossil record augmented by rare, sometimes surprising new finds like Homo floresiensis, paleoanthropologists have assembled a very solid general picture of human evolution.

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient relatives adapted to their environment, becoming smaller in response to the limited resources available in the island environment ...

Findings such as the fossil "hobbits" in Flores (H. floresiensis) and the enigmatic Homo species from Dmanisi have dramatic implications for human evolution, and the significance of these has yet ...

The world was crowded then with strange cousins: Homo neanderthalensis, Homo floresiensis, the Denisovans, and perhaps other varieties of people who weren’t quite us. When we met them ...