A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ...

The discovery of a 700,000-year-old arm bone fossil and two teeth on the Indonesian island of Flores is shedding light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis evolved.

Arm bone of small ‘hobbit’ human that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago discovered on Indonesian island By . Brie Stimson, Fox News. Published Aug. 7, 2024, 6:34 a.m. ET.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

Fossils remains suggest an early human species nicknamed “hobbits” had ancestors who were even shorter, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature. The extinct Homo ...

More remarkable than its short stature was its minuscule brain, about one-third the size of a modern human’s. Analyzing the cave floor, scientists determined the Homo floresiensis bones were ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 08 / 240806131156.htm.