Paleontologists unearthed the first %27hobbit%27 on Indonesia%27s island of Flores in 2003 Disputes have centered on whether the species truly existed and over its ...

Side-by-side images of an artist's interpretation of a hobbit. In 2003, archaeologists discovered human-like skeletal remains inside a cave in Indonesia. Upon closer inspection, they determined that ...

Bilbo seems to be psyching himself up to go face to face with the dragon in the new teaser poster for "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." The new look at the hotly anticipated return to Middle ...

11:00, Thu, Jun 8, 2023 Updated: 11:00, Thu, Jun 8, 2023 The face of a real-life “Hobbit” can be seen for the fist time since the Stone Age after scientists were able to reconstruct their likeness.

Marvel, Lost and Hobbit actor says ‘almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity’ after she fainted and fell face-first into a boulder ...

The fossil of a totally unexpected tiny species of human was discovered in Indonesia in 2003. We look at what we know about this discovery and what facial reconstruction may reveal Every skull has a ...

When scientists announced the discovery of a single tiny fossil skull and a few other ancient bones on an Indonesian island called Flores two years ago, they created a worldwide sensation with their ...

When you think of Hobbits, a vision of Bilbo or Frodo Baggins might spring to mind. But Hobbits were once very much real, in the form of an ancient species called Homo floresiensis. Homo floresiensis ...

The fantasy collectibles market had another headline moment this week when a rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold at auction in Bristol, England, for $57,000. The book, discovered ...

An Australian facial anthropologist has used forensic facial approximation techniques to show, for the first time, how the mysterious Flores ‘hobbit’ might have once looked. Homo floresiensis, as the ...