A fossil skeleton found in a cave on Flores Island, Indonesia, in 2004 turned out to be a previously unknown, very small species of human. Nicknamed the “hobbit” (officially Homo floresiensis), it ...

Pilgrims are seen walking while carrying a statue of the Virgin Mary during the Good Friday procession in Larantuka, East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, on April 14, 2017. (ANTARA FOTO/Kornelis Kaha) ...

On the Indonesian island of Flores, there lives a group of people known as the Rampasasa pygmies. Their average height is about four feet seven inches, and their hamlet is very close to Liang Bua, a ...

A modern pygmy population living on an Indonesian island near a cave with Homo floresiensis ('hobbit') fossils appears to have evolved short stature independently. H. floresiensis was significantly ...

“Are we alone?” This is a question usually asked by scientists searching for extraterrestrial life. In “Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid,” Gregory Forth ...

Maumere, Indonesia — Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people had died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores. The eruption ...

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