Homo floresiensis

The second version (2.0) of Archaeological Forensic Facial Reconstruction of the individual LB1 of the species Homo floresiensis. (Cicero Moraes et alii/CC BY 4.0)

Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"; nicknamed "hobbit") is an extinct species in the genus Homo. The remains of an individual that would have stood about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) in height were discovered in 2003 at Liang Bua on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

A big debate over a little person is getting a new perspective after recent analysis of prehistoric teeth. Scientists now suggest that the remains of Homo floresiensis, popularly known as the Hobbit, seem to show it belonged to a unique species of hominin, rather than being a modern human with a physical deformities.

Homo floriensis v. Megalania

As anatomically modern Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and around the rest of the world, they met and interbred with at least four different hominin species, according to new research from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

The forefathers of Homo floresiensis reached Flores either by sailing to the island or being accidently washed out to sea by a tsunami, scientists say

Homo habilis

New study reveals archaic ‘hobbits’ were even smaller than previously thought Recent fossil discoveries on the Indonesian island of Flores have revealed that the ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as “hobbits” due to their small stature, were even tinier than previously thought. Homo floresiensis was first discovered in 2003 in the Liang Bua cave on Flores. The initial fossils indicated that these small-brained humans lived on the island as recently as 50,000…

A couple of years ago a TV producer asked me to create a few reconstructions of Homo floresiensis, popularly known as the “hobbit of Flores island” for a documentary film. They wanted the images to…

Por Ramon López i Ayats

Tiny skeleton from Indonesia's Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers

The remains of a small-statured hominid may be a new, hobbitlike, species called Homo floresiensis.

Flores hominids attempt to fend off a giant stork from a slain stegodon calf.

New bones attributed to Homo floresiensis — aka the "Hobbit human" — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

I haven't wrote about palaeoanthropology much recently, but I have been meaning to write about Homo floresiensis for a while now. The diminutive hominin, most likely a new Homo species although this is still debated, was discovered by chance on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 during the excavation of the Liang Bua cave site,…

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