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Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s / also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species) is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.
1 Ιουλ 2022 · Remains of one of the most recently discovered early human species, Homo floresiensis (nicknamed ‘Hobbit’), have so far only been found on the Island of Flores, Indonesia.
25 Οκτ 2024 · The brain of Homo floresiensis was about one third of the size of the brain of Homo sapiens, according to a 2013 study. A long time ago, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, there lived strange ...
8 Ιουλ 2024 · Digs and geological dating in Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia, show that Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the “hobbit” for its small size, became extinct around 50,000 years ago – tens of thousands of years earlier than originally thought. The new study dated layers of volcanic ash and calcite directly above and below the fossils.
60,000 years ago, diminutive beings dwelled on the Indonesian island of Flores, alongside komodo dragons, pygmy stegodons and real-life rodents of unusual size. The now-extinct humans — known scientifically as Homo floresiensis, and popularly as the hobbits — stood less than 4 feet tall, with brains one third the size of living people.
6 Αυγ 2024 · 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. They’re thought to be among the last early human species to go extinct.
2 Σεπ 2023 · The explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian cave in 2003 captivated the world.
