**The “Hobbits” Mysteriously Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago – Scientists Have Revealed What Happened to Their Home**
By Nick Scroxton, Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh, Michael Gagan, and Mika Rizki Puspaningrum - Published on 10 July 2026
A long drought on Flores may have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its prey away from their cave refuge. For more than a million years, a small human relative survived on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia. Then, about 50,000 years ago, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature) [...]
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