Human ‘Hobbit’ Fossils Surprise Scientists With Smaller and More Ancient Specimens

A 700,000-year-old 'hobbit' arm bone is offering new insights into the enigmatic species' evolutionary past.

. Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm fossils of the so-called Hobbit species, which they say belonged to the smallest known individual yet identified. These findings tease out details of how these small hominins evolved.

The research “strengthens the link between these early remains and the much later sample from Liang Bua, both in terms of morphology and a very small body size, even in adults,” said Chris Stringer, an anthropologist at London’s Natural History Museum who was not affiliated with the recent paper, in an email to Gizmodo. “Being able to track a single evolving hominin lineage over that time scale holds great promise for future research.

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