A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

At Mata Menge, researchers found a tiny adult upper arm bone that belonged to an individual who lived 700,000 years ago, shedding light on the origins of Homo floresiensis. Yousuke Kaifu Until some 60 ...

Scientists have found what they believe to be the smallest adult arm bone on record, shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The “astonishingly small ...

A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is shedding light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis 1 — an ancient relative of modern humans nicknamed hobbit owing to its small stature.

The arm bone fragment excavated in 2013 at the site Mata Menge. Y. Kaifu We have discovered rare and very old human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult ...

The Mata Menge humerus fragment (left) shown at the same scale as the humerus of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua. A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare ...