It’s the smallest ever found in the human record, belonging to an individual estimated to be only about 3 feet tall (100 cm), 6 cm shorter than the 60,000-year-old Homo floresiensis skeleton ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

SWARTKRANS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA—Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa ...