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

H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going extinct around 100,000 years ago.It was one of the first early human species to migrate out of Africa, traveling to distant ...

A team of scientists has discovered a 140,000-year-old Homo erectus skull in Indonesia, between the islands of Java and Madura. The remains were found buried in layers of silt and sand.

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

The prints are thought to belong to the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei. The discovery raises questions about what kind of relationship and interactions the two species had.

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania ... that only appeared with modern humans. However, this view was based on limited and fragmentary data from a few archaeological ...

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