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 ...

It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

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

Homo erectus – which this skull belonged to – was the first hominin species to leave Africa, around 2.1 million years ago. New research shows that when Homo erectus migrated from ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

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 ...

In Africa, Homo erectus gave way to larger-brained descendants such as Homo heidelbergensis, which was also present in Europe. But in archaeology, major developments were seen even before the ...

Homo erectus was slightly shorter than modern humans, but more muscular. They had wider hips and an elongated skull. In addition, they had a significantly smaller brain—about half as large as ours.