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 scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, ...

When scientists announced the discovery of a tiny hobbit-like bipod called Homo floresiensis in Indonesia way back in 2003, they thought perhaps it was simply an evolutionary fork of the well ...

which had never been found in Indonesia. The study authors believe that Homo erectus may have come to the island as much as 1.2 million years ago and that Homo floresiensis descended from them ...

In classifying the specimen LB1 (above), found on the island of Flores in Indonesia, Australian and Indonesian scientists ... While they contend it represents a new species, others claim it is a Homo ...

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?

In 2003 the fossilised bones of a species of human called Homo floresiensis were discovered in the Liang Bua cave on Indonesia’s island of Flores by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.

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.