A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

The arm bone fragment excavated in 2013 at the site Mata Menge. Y. Kaifu We have discovered rare and very old human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult ...

A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is shedding light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis 1 — an ancient relative of modern humans nicknamed hobbit owing to its small stature.

The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua. A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare ...