Years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped ...

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

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A cave climate record shows that a long, intensifying drought likely pushed the “hobbit” humans to disappear from Flores.

New study links climate stress to the disappearance of early human species Homo floresiensis, the 'hobbits' of Flores A team ...

According to a recent study by archaeologists, it has been found that the early humans, who occupied the Indonesian island of Flores, were obliterated by climate change. The study was published ...

Scientists suggest that declining rainfall and competition with modern humans led to the extinction of Homo floresiensis, an archaic hominid species, around 50,000 years ago.