A new study has revealed that the ancestors of the so-called "hobbits," an early human species discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores, were even smaller than previously thought. Published ...

In 2003, researchers excavating a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores made an extraordinary discovery: the 18,000-year-old bones of a woman whose skull was less than one-third ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, on the island of Flores, erupted at 11.57pm local time (3.57pm UK time) on Sunday. It sent up a fiery-red column of lava, volcanic ash and blazing rocks, Hadi Wijaya ...

Paleoanthropology is among the most quarrelsome of fields, so it is no surprise that researchers have gone to war over the remarkable bones discovered in a Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

A higher number of Catholics registered to join a traditional Semana Santa (Holy Week) festival in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Flores Island this year despite a volcanic eruption nearby. About ...