New fossils push 'hobbit' story back to 700,000 years ago

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 12:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say new fossil finds on an Indonesian island have revealed ancestors of the "hobbits," our extinct, 3 ½ -foot-tall evolutionary cousins that gained fame more than a decade ago after their remains were found in a cave there....

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