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 ...

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 ...

Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for ...

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 ...

"Instead, what we seem to have found is a much older variant of the hobbit itself, of Homo floresiensis." The small stature of all H. floresiensis fossils has been explained by what's called ...

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 ...