Dwarf skeleton puzzles scientists
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical
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Titan and Dione, two of the moons orbiting Saturn, apparently aren&#39;t exactly what researchers had previously believed. Photographs taken during a flyby of the Cassini space probe this week may clarify and
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Scientists believe they could be a step closer to solving the mystery of how the first birds took to the air.
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Australian scientists have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The discovery adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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THE MYSTERY: Since the discovery of the famed "hobbit fossil," researchers have wrangled over whether the find was a human ancestor or a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient, tiny species of human in an isolated part of Indonesia. They are bones from what they say is a smaller version of the now extinct immediate ancestor to modern humans.
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THE DISCOVERY: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be understated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores , announced in the
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Detailing &quot;a new and surprising twig&quot; on the human family tree, scientists report Thursday they&#39;ve discovered the remains of a clan of tiny human relatives, standing about 30 inches tall, that
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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December 21, 2004 - A new X-ray machine will help anthropologists solve mysteries locked inside some of the Field Museum&#39;s ancient collection of fossils, mummies and pottery.
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.
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An analysis of the wrist bones of the tiny prehistoric human dubbed the &quot;Hobbit&quot; bolsters the theory that it was a new species of human and not some aberration of modern man, a study released Thursday said.
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Exploding through the newsnets is the discovery of the remains of seven members of a tiny, previously unknown human species that survived until at least 13,000 years ago, and perhaps co-existed with modern humans right up to the present day.  Adult Homo Florensiensis, nicknamed "Hobbits" by the dig workers who helped uncover the remains at the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child, but had a brain one-third the size. Stone tools and pygmy elephant bones found at the site indicate that these "Hobbits" hunted co-operatively together in groups, meaning that they must have had language. "The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find," commented Dr Henry Gee of Nature magazine to the BBC.