Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

"There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, told Live Science. "We have the first evidence of ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

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 ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest ...

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed. The discovery, described in four studies in the June Quaternary Environments ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

The bones were part of a cache of more than 6,000 recovered fossils. Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...