An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

In 2003, bones pulled from a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores surprised scientists worldwide. The remains belonged to a small human relative no one had known about before: Homo floresiensis.

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 ...

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname "hobbits." Now a new study suggests ...