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 ...

Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after characters in “The Lord of the Rings” — date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a ...

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 ...

“However, the new fossils strongly suggest that the ‘Hobbit’ story did indeed begin when a group of the early Asian hominins known as Homo erectus somehow became isolated on this remote ...

The original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and ... as a result of breakthrough 47 years after his frozen body was found in a PA cave [updated] 'Pinnacle Man' identified as a result ...

The sediment layer containing the fossils was dated in previous research to around 700,000 years ago. This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis ...