hobbit Archives

Humans lived in Indonesia’s rainforests more than 70,000 years ago

Human incursions into Southeast Asia may have occurred more than 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The miniature human species now has a place on the Homo family tree – and it’s more ancient than we thought.

Humans could potentially have another ancestor we didn’t know about.

Scientists have unearthed fossils from an extinct human species that predates Homo floresiensis by more than half a million years.

A tiny human species discovered in 2003 may have been extinct for much longer than previously thought.

Professor Richard Roberts talks about Homo floresiensis (or the Hobbit) found in 2003 in Indonesia.