Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s /), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of …

Jul 8, 2024 · Digs and geological dating in Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia, show that Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the “hobbit” for its small size, became extinct around 50,000 years ago …

Jul 1, 2022 · Remains of one of the most recently discovered early human species, Homo floresiensis (nicknamed ‘Hobbit’), have so far only been found on the Island of Flores, Indonesia.

Jul 26, 2019 · 60,000 years ago, diminutive beings dwelled on the Indonesian island of Flores, alongside komodo dragons, pygmy stegodons and real-life rodents of unusual size. The now …

Oct 25, 2024 · A long time ago, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, there lived strange, small-statured humans who dwelled among giant storks and shrunken elephants.

Sep 22, 2023 · Hobbits are usually found feasting, drinking, gardening and destroying rings in Tolkien's fictional Middle-Earth. But in reality, ancient remains indicate that hobbit-sized …

Sep 2, 2023 · Now, 20 years later, scientists are still struggling to understand the hobbit’s place in the human family tree. The explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian …

Aug 6, 2024 · Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived about hundreds of thousands of years ago on a remote Indonesian island.

Aug 6, 2024 · A hobbit-size species of ancient human that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until about 50,000 years ago baffles scientists in several ways.

Aug 7, 2024 · A tiny human relative called the hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new …