Scientists have discovered rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, a study published on Wednesday has revealed. The fossils included an “astonishingly small” adult limb bone, dated to about 700,000 years old. It is thought to be from a very early individual of the “hobbit” species Homo floresiensis that were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in the island’s west. Pre-dating the Liang Bua hominins by 650,000 years, the latest fossil finds belong to at least three individuals with smaller jaws and teeth than Homo floresiensis. The study, published in Nature Communication…