THE bones of a long-extinct human ancestor have been dredged up from the seafloor, just off the coast of what is now known as ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled ... hippopotamuses and bovids, according to the new study published in Nature.

Male bovids all have these traits ... it also offers opportunities for researchers studying extinct species. Identifying the sex of extinct species is notoriously difficult, especially in animals such ...