Smallest adult hominin ever found.

Newly analyzed fossils from an Indonesian island suggest that ancient humans living 700,000 years ago were even smaller than the Homo floresiensis, or "hobbits," that lived on the same island more recently. The fossils, found at the Mata Menge site, include a piece of an upper arm bone that allowed researchers to estimate the body size of these small-bodied hominins. The findings indicate that the Mata Menge hominin was the smallest adult hominin ever discovered. While some researchers believe that the hobbits descended from larger hominins called Homo erectus, others suggest that the Mata Menge hominins may be a new unknown species. Further research and more fossils are needed to determine the origins of the hobbits. [Extracted from the article]