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 ...

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 ...

"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 "island ...

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.

which have mainly been found with larger-brained species. These initial hobbit fossils were dated to about 60,000 to 100,000 years old. The new fossils, recovered from an archaeological site named ...

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 ...