And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters ... An unearthed humerus bone is the smallest human limb bone ever found, and a digital analysis ...

about 45 miles from the cave where the first hobbit remains were uncovered. The fossils were found on the top of a ribbon-shaped, pebbly sandstone layer in a small stream. They included ...

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The disparity in size between the two could point to natural variation, as seen within modern human populations ...

Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm fossils of the so-called Hobbit species ... (pronounced flor-eh-see-en-sis) found in 2004 were dated to about 60,000 years ...

Twenty years after researchers discovered an ancient race of “hobbit” humans on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new team has found fossils that are even smaller and even more ancient.

But a new revelation sheds more light on how the diminutive human — nicknamed hobbit after J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional characters — might have evolved. A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo ...