The so-called island effect may have driven species to extremes on Flores Island. Some species like the mini-elephant called a Stegodon got smaller, while others got bigger.

Much about the pint-sized Homo floresiensis has been shrouded in mystery since the first fossils suggesting their existence were found on the island of Flores in 2003. These tool-using hominins ...

The Mata Menge excavation site on the Indonesia island of Flores is pictured on Sept. 9, 2019. Researchers uncovered fossils at the site that suggest ancestors of the “hobbits” were even ...