The "Hobbit" nickname refers to the small stature of the creature ... Homo sapiens is our own species. Homo erectus is an earlier human species that lived 1.8 million - 200,000 years ago, and appears ...

Measuring almost two metres tall, Leptoptilos robustus would have lived in a unique ecosystem which included the mysterious miniature human relative Homo floresiensis ... dragon as well as a number of ...

The diminutive size of this new human species, Homo floresiensis , earned it the nickname“Hobbit.” Shockingly, researchers believed it had survived until the end of the last Ice Age ...