Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

A severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the extinction of the diminutive human species known as Homo floresiensis, or the Flores Man, around 50,000 years ago. The hobbit-like ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

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 ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Yet in all instances, the position confers on Homo sapiens a unique status ... no field zoologist is yet looking for living specimens of H. floresiensis or related hominin species. But this does not ...

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?

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 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 ...

According to Wits University, Paranthropus robustus lived in South Africa around two million years ago, alongside Homo ...

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 ...

Researchers have debated how the hobbits – named Homo floresiensis after the remote Indonesian island of Flores – evolved to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story.