The so-called "hobbit" fossils are raising questions about human evolution and how these tiny ancient people came to be.

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 ...

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.

Anthropologists found smaller, more ancient bones than before The remains of H. floresiensis (pronounced flor-eh-see-en-sis) found in 2004 were dated to about 60,000 years old , about 10,000 years ...

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 ...