"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While hominin brains kept increasing throughout human evolution, this species only evolved to be about ...

When people hear the word “Hobbit,” they think of fantasy — Tolkien, Middle-earth, fiction. But in 2003, archaeologists uncovered something that felt impossible: a real human species barely over one ...

Back in 2003, scientists made an astonishing discovery in a cave on a remote Indonesian island: tiny human skeletons that looked like something straight out of fantasy fiction. These ancient relatives ...

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 ...