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 ...

Fly over Mount Kelimutu’s mystical crater lakes on Flores Island—drone footage reveals three vividly colored volcanic lakes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

“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 ...

Scientists sequenced the genomes of a pygmy population living near the cave in Indonesia where fossils were found of Homo floresiensis, a previously unknown, very small species of human nicknamed the ...