Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic manipulations of numbers. Taking a deep-dive into the evolutionary roots of our ...

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. They survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago ...

"Homo erectus could disperse from the Asian mainland to Java." The vast majority of Sundaland is now a shallow sea, and until now, fossils had never been found in this area.

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million years ago in Africa. They were the first to reach the stature of modern humans, and they had long slender legs to run on.

Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging previous beliefs about early human ecological limitations.

For example, Tocheri noted, there are no known Homo erectus wristbones for him to compare with the hobbit’s. Scientists also hope to be able extract ancient DNA from Liang Bua.

Homo erectus went on to thrive for 1 million years more. Paranthropus boisei, however, went extinct within the next few hundred thousand years. Scientists don’t know why.