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.
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.
New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...
Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Geographic Society, and Google Arts and Culture. Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh receives funding from the Australian ...
A new study reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone. Dated to about 700,000 years old, the ...
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 ...
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