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

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 ...

Analysis suggests the remnants belonged to diminutive individuals even smaller than Homo floresiensis – enigmatic human species named after fantasy author JRR Tolkien’s fictional race of people in ...

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 ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pa Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of archaeologists further insights into some of the earliest evidence of Homo ...