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 ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

SCIENTISTS believe that a species of hobbit people thought to have vanished 50,000 years ago could still be roaming the earth. The ancient humans, that stood a tiny 3.5 feet tall, were first ...

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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 ...

Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the “hobbit”-like humans who hunted them. Until about 50,000 years ago, Homo ...