Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Our mysterious cousin species stood at just three feet and may have traveled treacherous waters. The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images ...

In a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers have uncovered new insights into the mysterious extinction of Homo floresiensis, a small-bodied human species that once ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

Back in 2003, scientists made an astonishing discovery in a cave on a remote Indonesian island: tiny human skeletons that looked like something straight out of fantasy fiction. These ancient relatives ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tens of thousands of years ago, a tiny species of human existed on a ...

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That’s around the same time that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hobbits are exceptions to the rule that older ancient humans had proportionally larger wisdom teeth and smaller brains. Jim Watson ...

Ancestors to Homo floresiensis lived on the Indonesian island of Flores 650,000 years before their famous relatives. A new fossil find pushes back both the age and the size of the ancestors of the ...

The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua. A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare ...