The team also examined 4,500 rodent bones from Liang Bua and found no charring.

Liang Bua cave, purported cut marks on elephant bones and charred remains from other animals led some researchers to propose that the hominids had complex behaviors surprising for their small brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One-meter-tall humans? It sounds incredible, something out of a Tolkien fantasy. But two decades ago, scientists discovered an ...

For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia. Then, around 50,000 years ago, this tiny hominin known as Homo ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood about 3½ feet tall — earning it the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be. Researchers thought that the ancient human relative known as Homo ...

Want to mingle with hobbits? All you’ll need is a time machine and these coordinates: Flores Island, Indonesia, 700,000 B.C. There, you’d find 70-pound, three-foot-tall humanoids dwelling in caves. If ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the "hobbits" for their ...

LIANG BUA, Indonesia Hunched over a picnic table in a limestone cave, the Indonesian researcher gingerly fingers the bones of a giant rat for clues to the origins of a tiny human. This world turned ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an ...