In 2003, researchers excavating a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores made an ... whom lived about 12,000 years ago. The Hobbits of Flores created an uproar among ...

These 700,000-year-old remains offer unprecedented insights into the mysterious lineage of Homo floresiensis, the so-called ‘Hobbits ... In 2003, on the island of Flores, they unearthed ...

Archaeologists have suggested the hobbits diverged from a larger species called Homo erectus, which might have traveled to Flores from the neighboring Java Island around one million years ago.

Whispers of “ape-men” sightings on Indonesia’s Flores Island hint at ancient humans ... Forth speculates the “Hobbits” may have lived until 100 years ago, or even now, challenging ...

Researchers have debated how the hobbits – named Homo floresiensis after the remote Indonesian island of Flores – evolved to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story.

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?