Compared with modern humans (Homo sapiens), who have been around for the past 300,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright human," had a long reign. The ancient human species lived from 2 million years ...

A team of researchers working in a Moroccan cave system has recovered early hominin fossils dated to roughly 773,000 years ago, and the bones carry physical traits that place them near the base of the ...

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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, ...

The palm oil industry in Indonesia has led to widespread deforestation, making it hard to find remaining signs of archaic life. Donal Husni / NurPhoto / Getty Images From the air, endless rows of palm ...

The discovery of Homo floresiensis, often termed a hobbit, confused a lot of people. Not only was it tiny in stature, but it shared some features with both Homo erectus and earlier Australopithecus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists who ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human evolution. A remarkably complete fossil from northern Kenya is giving scientists ...