It's not every day that scientists discover a new human species. But that's just what happened back in 2004, when archaeologists uncovered some very well-preserved fossil remains in the Liang Bua cave ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Are "Flo" and other H. floresiensis individuals actually the Ebu Gogo? There's clearly a case to be made in this island of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The discovery of an “astonishingly small adult limb bone” in Indonesia rekindles debate about modern ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While hominin brains kept increasing throughout human evolution, this species only evolved to be about ...

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 species ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, a tiny species of human existed on a small Indonesian island. Standing at around 1.1 meters in height, Homo floresiensis is thought to have lived on the island of ...

Unos nuevos fósiles de Indonesia, entre ellos el húmero más pequeño jamás hallado de un hominino adulto, pertenecían a la diminuta especie “Homo floresiensis”, según los investigadores. By Carl Zimmer ...

At first, the skeleton looked like a child’s. Uncovered in the gaping Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the female hominin would have stood just 3.5 feet tall in life. But she wasn't ...

An ancient legend from the Indonesian island of Flores speaks of a mysterious, wild grandmother of the forest who eats everything: the ‘ebu gogo’. According to folklore, such tiny, hairy people as her ...

Back in 2003, scientists made an astonishing discovery in a cave on a remote Indonesian island: tiny human skeletons that looked like something straight out of fantasy fiction. These ancient relatives ...

Colonization of islands often activate a complex chain of adaptive events that, over a relatively short evolutionary time, may drive strong shifts in body size, a pattern known as the Island Rule. It ...