Homo floresiensis – an offshoot of Homo erectus – is the extinct species at the centre of the research, which once made their home in the island of Flores. It focuses on 700,000-year-old fossilized ...

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.

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. Male locusts have long been observed ...

The rocks will help unravel ... Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo Floresiensis Aug. 6, 2024 — A new study reports the discovery of extremely rare early ...