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 ...

Most likely, members of the team thought, their find was a dwarfed offshoot of Homo erectus — the first human species to leave Africa and migrate around the world, the remains of which have been ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia, Live Science reported, citing four separate studies published ...

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 ...

Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution ... Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, ...

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.