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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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