The Early Human Hobbit Vanished 61,000 Years Ago — And Climate Change May Be to Blame

For more than 140,000 years, a tiny human species lived deep inside Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Then, sometime between 61,000 and 55,000 years ago, the cave fell silent. Homo floresiensis — the 3-foot-tall…