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 ...

Twenty years after researchers discovered an ancient race of “hobbit” humans on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new team has found fossils that are even smaller and even more ancient.

But a new revelation sheds more light on how the diminutive human — nicknamed hobbit after J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional characters — might have evolved. A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo ...