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

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

Homo erectus fossils discovered on the island of Java come from a population that died between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, researchers found. It's the last known appearance of Homo erectus in ...

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

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 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.

"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.

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

Homo erectus is a key ancestor of modern humans. Emerging at least two million years ago, they were the first to develop human-like proportions and the first to migrate out of Africa, eventually ...

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.