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 Indonesia. The discovery reveals a previously unknown Homo erectus ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on ... was hunting for large game such as cow-like bovids, a strategy which is more commonly ...

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 ...