The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...

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.

Gregory Forth has studied the homo floresiensis for roughly four decades—first when at the University of Oxford and then at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an ...

An anthropologist claims that a small island in Indonesia is home to a less-evolved human species. Anthropology is the study of humanity and pre-modern human species are within the field’s scope.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...