Her scientific name is Homo floresiensis, her nickname is “the hobbit,” and the hunt is on to prove that she and the dozen other hobbits since discovered are not a quirk of nature but members ...

The 700,000 year-old hominins may be the ancestors of the 18,000-year-old Homo Floresiensis, or "hobbit fossils," also found in Indonesia. Dipti Kapadia explains. Photo illustration: Atelier ...

those minuscule possible-humans who seem to have survived on the Indonesian island of Flores nearly into the Holocene.Where did the Hobbits (officially designated Homo floresiensis) come from? All the ...

A severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the extinction of the diminutive human species known as Homo floresiensis, or the Flores Man, around 50,000 years ago. The hobbit-like ...

Now a team of researchers report in Nature that they've discovered the mysterious origins of this peculiar ancient human that's been nicknamed the "hobbit." Produced by Emma Fierberg. Original ...

Homo floresiensis, affectionately dubbed 'the hobbit' for her tiny one-metre stature, would rewrite history books, capture imaginations around the world and go on to be dubbed 'the scientific find ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

SCIENTISTS believe that a species of hobbit ... Homo sapiens. However, it was later concluded to be a different species entirely named after the island on which they lived - Homo floresiensis.

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As per the study, the original hobbit fossils date ... between the Mata Menge fossils and Homo erectus fossils from Java island strongly supports that Homo floresiensis (Hobbits) descended from ...