On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Previous research suggested their disappearance coincided with the arrival of modern humans in southeast Asia and Australia. Now, ...

The ancestors of the ancient 'hobbits' who once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores were not the only early hominins to cross deep ocean barriers more than a million years ago. A team of ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their ...