The so-called "hobbit" fossils are raising questions about human evolution and how these tiny ancient people came to be.

Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought.

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) is shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua.

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The new fossils were excavated from a site called Mata Menge on the Indonesian island of Flores, 45 miles from where the original fossils of the larger hobbit were found 20 years ago.

Until some 60,000 years ago, petite early humans standing just over three feet tall lived on Flores Island in what is now Indonesia. These individuals—called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the ...

Scientists studying ancient cousins of humans have big news: A hobbit-like species was even smaller than previously thought. Fossils of Homo floresiensis (dubbed "hobbits" for their resemblance to ...

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) is shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua.

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A hobbit-size species of ancient human that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until about 50,000 years ago baffles scientists in several ways. First unearthed ...