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