A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.
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.
Aug 6 (Reuters) - When researchers excavated fossilized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches (88 mm) long at a site called Mata Menge on Indonesia's Flores island, the pieces initially were ...
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 ...
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