It is thought to be from a very early individual of the “hobbit” species Homo floresiensis that has perplexed scientists since its discovery two decades ago. The latest fossil suggests that ...

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The disparity in size between the two could point to natural variation, as seen within modern human populations ...

about 45 miles from the cave where the first hobbit remains were uncovered. The fossils were found on the top of a ribbon-shaped, pebbly sandstone layer in a small stream. They included ...

Importantly, the team on this study found the first postcranial ... “However, the new fossils strongly suggest that the ‘Hobbit’ story did indeed begin when a group of the early Asian ...

45 miles from where the original fossils of the larger hobbit were found 20 years ago. When the arm bone fragment, measuring just 3½ inches, was originally bagged, it was first labeled a possible ...

And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters ... An unearthed humerus bone is the smallest human limb bone ever found, and a digital analysis ...

Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm fossils of the so-called Hobbit species ... (pronounced flor-eh-see-en-sis) found in 2004 were dated to about 60,000 years ...