Science news articles about 'homo floresiensis'

A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis, the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago, may help settle a question hotly debated among ...

I was fascinated by the discovery of the dwarfed hominin Homo floresiensis back in 2004 when it was first announced, but was skeptical that it was really a separate species. Later when I saw a cast of ...

... Little: From left to right, a modern human female skull, a fragment of an older Palauan skull, and a model of a Homo floresiensis skull. Photo by Stephen Alvarez It could be any ...

... 18,000-year-old hominid found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. The discovery of Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the "the hobbit," remains controversial and could lead to rewriting the story of ...

... majority of researchers favor recognizing this as a new species," McNulty said about the categorization of Homo floresiensis. "The evidence is becoming overwhelming, and this study helps confirm that ...

In a an analysis of the size, shape and asymmetry of the cranium of Homo floresiensis, Karen Baab, Ph.D., a researcher in the Department of Anatomical Scienes at Stony Brook University, and ...

As the debate rages on about whether Homo floresiensis - so called "Hobbit" - fossils discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 represent a separate human species, researchers currently in ...

... on Tuesday at Stony Brook University on Long Island. A cast of the skull and bones of the hominid Homo floresiensis, its diminutive size inspiring the hobbit nickname, will be displayed for the first ...

... primates, but the big toe was stubby, more like a chimp's.Controversy has been rife ever since the discovery of the species, formally named Homo floresiensis, was announced in 2004. The single...