Did you know real Hobbit people used to exist on the planet a long time ago? In September 2003, archaeologists on the ...

"This means that Homo floresiensis experienced dramatic body ... though with a smaller brain. The original length of the Mata Menge humerus, dug up in 2013 and properly identified in 2015, would ...

A skull specimen indicated the lineage had a remarkably small brain, just one-third the ... confirms our hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo floresiensis were extremely small in body size ...

Scientists have debated Homo floresiensis’s origins since the species ... but with a smaller brain. “The discovery offers support to the idea that an evolutionary process known as island ...

The origin story of Homo floresiensis, an oddball member of the ... With its miniature body and brain and relatively big feet, H. floresiensis came to be known as the hobbit.

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed ... characterized by a small head (the hobbit is estimated to have a brain about one-third the size of modern humans), short stature and intellectual ...

With its tiny brain case and chimplike wristbones ... “Every tiny fragment of Homo floresiensis or any other hominin is incredibly important,” Tocheri said. “These fossils are our window ...

Based on those bones, the researchers estimated that Homo floresiensis stood 106 centimeters tall — about three and a half feet. More remarkable than its short stature was its minuscule brain ...