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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A human fossil discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores is physically extremely tiny. But in the ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The human story became a bit more complicated about two ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, the Indonesian island of Flores was home to a miniature hominin species called Homo floresiensis – otherwise known as the Hobbit humans. The discovery of this petite ...

A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life in stunning detail. Using hyper-realistic 3D facial reconstructions, the ...

In 2004, anthropologists on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered the remains of a diminutive hominin, Homo floresiensis. Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm ...

In 2003, archaeologists discovered human-like skeletal remains inside a cave in Indonesia. Upon closer inspection, they determined that the individual — most likely female — had an abnormally small ...

An Indonesian scientist holds the skull of the newly discovered remains of Indonesia's hobbit-sized humans in Jakarta.Beawiharta / Reuters A very small human ancestor made a very big splash back in ...

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ON A Tuesday in early September 2003, Benyamin Tarus struck bone. Digging through a cave floor on the Indonesian island of Flores, his trowel sliced into the left eyebrow ridge of an ancient human ...

"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 ...