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 ...

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.

Now, archaeologists have studied two more teeth and an adult’s partial upper arm bone found at Mata Menge. From these fossils, “we could finally determine the body size” of this hobbit ...

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 ...