Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

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

Homo habilis is explored as one of the earliest species in the Homo genus, dating to roughly 2.3 million years ago. Fossils ...

Researchers push back the timeline for their arrival by 600,000 years, raising new questions about how the species spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If *Homo habilis* was often chomped by leopards, it probably wasn't the top predator. Made with AI (DALL-E 4) Almost 2 million ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

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 ...