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 ...

In 2003, bones pulled from a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores surprised scientists worldwide. The remains belonged to a small human relative no one had known about before: Homo floresiensis.

Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the "hobbit" — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago because declining rainfall levels reduced the prey available for hunting. This ...

Stone tools were excavated from Calio, Sulawesi, and dated to over 1.04 million years ago. The scale bars are 10 mm. Recent findings, made by Griffith University researchers, show that early hominins ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) This proportionally bigger brain is what anthropologists argued enabled us and our ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tesla Monson, Western Washington University and Andrew Weitz, Western Washington ...