Later, when describing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team named the new species Homo floresiensis [PDF]. This ...

Liang Bua cave is the only other place where hobbit fossils have been found. The disparity in size between the two could point to natural variation, as seen within modern human populations ...

The lore of the discovery goes that while excavating a cave sediment laid down in the Pleistocene epoch, a local field worker found human skull ... the scientists, the fossil was also given ...

None were found, indicating that it is unlikely that ... No DNA was recovered in the original Hobbit fossils, but DNA methods have improved markedly in the last few years." She went on to say ...

As per the study, the original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The recently discovered fossils were found at a site called Mata Menge, about 45 miles from the ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after characters in “The Lord of the Rings” — date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost certainly descended from dinosaurs. Until now, scientists largely attributed ...

CHIEF SPECIMENS: cranium, jaw fragments, teeth found in western Chad ... set apart from other fossil apes by smaller canines, thicker and larger cheek teeth, and more downwardly oriented foramen ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

KOBE—Fossils found in Hyogo Prefecture are of a new genus and species of primitive ceratopsian, a plant-eating beaked dinosaur from about 110 million years ago, researchers said. The research ...