They’ve found the fragmentary remains of seven Homo sapiens, the oldest dating back 30,000 years before the main H. sapiens exodus from Africa. Photograph by Justin Jin ...

and stone tools – to map out life in the distant past. A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, Homo erectus. The ...

Archeological findings have surpassed previous records set by Spain and Turkey with this region now being named the oldest European site yielding human fossils.

The study comes from an international team of researchers working at the Oldupai Gorge site in Tanzania, who analyzed various excavated items – including bones, plant fossils, sediment, and stone ...

Contrary to the common belief that Homo erectus was limited to temperate environments, this study shows that they were capable of adapting to extreme conditions. This ecological flexibility likely ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

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