Hobbit Fossils Found? Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought.

The original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. ... The fossils were found on the top of a ribbon-shaped, pebbly sandstone layer in a small stream.

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

The fossils in this new study were found further away from the Liang Bua cave, in Mata Menge. This open-air site is about 46 miles east of the cave in sparsely populated tropical grasslands of the ...

The human story became a bit more complicated about two decades ago. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, found a tiny humanlike skull ...

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

Experts don’t know why Homo floresiensis — nicknamed the “hobbit” after J.R.R. Tolkien ... one of only two places on the island of Flores where fossils of the species have been found. ...

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

(CNN) — A hobbit-size species of ancient human that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until about 50,000 years ago baffles scientists in several ways. First unearthed in a startling ...