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 ...

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 ...

A modern pygmy population living on an Indonesian island near a cave with Homo floresiensis ('hobbit') fossils appears to have evolved short stature independently. H. floresiensis was significantly ...

“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 ...

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) ...

Fly over Mount Kelimutu’s mystical crater lakes on Flores Island—drone footage reveals three vividly colored volcanic lakes (usually blue, green, and red) set within the highland’s rugged caldera, ...

People on Flores island like to talk about how remote they are. They brag that they come from the westernmost point in Europe, and they have a hard-earned frontiersman pride: They live in most ...