And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters ... An unearthed humerus bone is the smallest human limb bone ever found, and a digital analysis ...

45 miles from where the original fossils of the larger hobbit were found 20 years ago. When the arm bone fragment, measuring just 3½ inches, was originally bagged, it was first labeled a possible ...

Twenty years after researchers discovered an ancient race of “hobbit” humans on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new team has found fossils that are even smaller and even more ancient.

which have mainly been found with larger-brained species. These initial hobbit fossils were dated to about 60,000 to 100,000 years old. The new fossils, recovered from an archaeological site named ...

But a new revelation sheds more light on how the diminutive human — nicknamed hobbit after J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional characters — might have evolved. A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo ...