A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

Bone fragments from Homo erectus have emerged that shed new light on humans' ancestry in Southeast Asia from the last Ice Age.

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

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees.

The researchers believe Homo erectus became isolated on the island around 1 million years ago and underwent a dramatic reduction in body size during a period of around 300,000 years.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...