They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their ...

A cave climate record shows that a long, intensifying drought likely pushed the “hobbit” humans to disappear from Flores.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...

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Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin stand at an intersection as Hobbit-heroes. In comparison to the rest of the Fellowship, they’re strange, but in comparison to other Hobbits, they are noble. The audience ...

Meanwhile, the screenwriter reveals the movie’s original title. By Jonathan Handel Age of the Hobbits, which a federal judge enjoined Monday from release in the U.S. under that title, has a new name; ...

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The Hobbits Key Art VS. Age of Hobbits Key Split - H 2012 The Asylum, known for its low-budget “mockbusters” that often trade on the hoopla surrounding major Hollywood releases, has set a Dec. 11 ...

The cozy-burrows part isn’t true, but J.R.R. Tolkien got it partly right: hobbits really did walk the Earth. According to many scientists, a species of miniature beings distantly related to Homo ...