Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor ...

Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus. H. erectus and the other animals found there lived on ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness and capabilities may have been going underestimated - Copyright AFP SAUL LOEB A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes ...

Human ancestor species Homo erectus arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new fossil discovery in China shows. Homo erectus, a distant ancestor of ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image Credit: t.m ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...