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A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hobbits are exceptions to the rule that older ancient humans had proportionally larger wisdom teeth and smaller brains. Jim Watson ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...

Unos nuevos fósiles de Indonesia, entre ellos el húmero más pequeño jamás hallado de un hominino adulto, pertenecían a la diminuta especie “Homo floresiensis”, según los investigadores. By Carl Zimmer ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, a tiny species of human existed on a small Indonesian island. Standing at around 1.1 meters in height, Homo floresiensis is thought to have lived on the island of ...

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