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.

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

The discovery of a tiny arm bone suggests that an ancient human dubbed "hobbits" only shrank down to their diminutive size after they arrived on an Indonesian island a million years ago, scientists ...

A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is shedding light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis 1 — an ancient relative of modern humans nicknamed hobbit owing to its small stature.

About 700,000 years ago, the skeletal remains of one of our most diminutive and mysterious ancient relatives were encased in sand and mud in a riverbed on an Indonesian island. Now, scientists have ...

Following uncovered fossils in Indonesia, a new study on Tuesday suggested that ancestors of the so-called "hobbits" were even smaller than previously believed, according to the Nature Communications.

In 2004, anthropologists on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered the remains of a diminutive hominin, Homo floresiensis. Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm ...

The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua. A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare ...