shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The “astonishingly small” limb, believed to be around 700,000 years old, was found in the island of Flores in ...

Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal fossil found in France reveals that it was ... dubbed Thorin after a character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, was discovered in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin ...

Until recently, only two complete skeletons from the battle had been found, leaving gaps in the ... nicknamed Thorin after a character in “The Hobbit,” has puzzled researchers for nearly ...

However, the once-in-a-lifetime find, nicknamed Thorin after a character in “The Hobbit,” remained ... of that interbreeding has been found in Neanderthal fossils from that time, including ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after ... have been charged with the murder of Taig Savage who was found badly beaten outside of Penticton Secondary School three years ...

No consensus exists on an age for the Gibraltar fossil, a partial braincase found at a quarry in 1848. “If Thorin is really 50,000 years old, this would be an amazing finding showing a strong ...